This book seeks to equip the reader from the ground up with all the essential principles and tools for building learning models. Machine learning and deep learning is rapidly evolving, and often it is overwhelming and confusing for a beginner looking to delve into this field. Many have no clue where to start. This book is a one-stop shop that takes the beginner on a journey to state-of-the-art theoretical understanding and practical mastery without assuming any pre-requisite. Although this book is written with the beginner at heart, it is not ridiculously verbose and repetitive, but written in a direct and succinct manner that will appeal to experts and serve as a refresher for the core concepts.

Author’s Message to Ejagham Youths

We must be encouraged to persevere and to take personal responsibility for ourselves, our families and our community. We persevere in hope and with courage because our efforts is not an effort in futility and our courage is not dialectical. This notion of concrete hope and courage with meaning is firmly etched in the Christian worldview of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. In all of history, there is no man that died and today remains alive. All the central figures of all worldviews are dead or mythical. Only Jesus is alive. This is the anchor of our hope and our courage and our perseverance. So we live, move and have our being in Christ Alone, by Faith Alone, through Grace Alone, on the Authority of Scripture Alone, and to the Glory of God Alone.

“without data, there is no learning”