in memory of David MacKay FRS, a remarkable post of how a pioneer in Machine Learning dealt with his illness • /r/MachineLearning

I was a physicist with an almost nil education in bayesian inference and machine learning, and his book was the first contact I had with those things. It was the first book on this topic that I read cover-to-cover when I decided to my a phd in Bayesian models instead of Semiconductor Physics (my M.Sc. It was so recently that I congratulated him on twitter on him being knighted by the Queen, and I was so happy that he responded. I never knew him, only through his book.