Is Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning still a relevant book? • /r/MachineLearning

Don't forget to check the FAQ. It has links to lots of good resources including Elements of Statistical Learning which is free online and one of the standard texts (Murphy and Bishop are the other two standard texts). Yaser Abu-Mostafa wrote a book called "Learning from Data" which I enjoyed quite a bit but wasn't listed in the FAQ. It doesn't cover many algorithms (just one or two I think) but does a good job providing an approachable introduction to theoretical aspects of ML that aren't always covered in the standard texts. Colah's blog isn't updated often but all the articles are fantastic You may also want to follow Yann LeCun on facebook. He posts stuff about ML on a fairly regular basis.