Three Must-Own Books for Deep Learning Practitioners

Developing neural networks is often referred to as a dark art. The reason for this is that being skilled at developing neural network models comes from experience. There are no reliable methods to analytically calculate how to design a "good" or "best" model for your specific dataset. You must draw on experience and experiment in order to discover what works on your problem. A lot of this experience can come from actually developing neural networks on test problems.