Additional Resources
Cheat Sheets
- Machine Learning Glossary
- Some Pros and Cons of Basic ML Algorithms, in 2 Minutes
- Cheat Sheets for Machine Learning and Data Science
- The Illustrated Machine Learning Website
Vids
- John Koza Genetic Programming (YouTube)
- גיא כתבי - אלגוריתמים אבולוציוניים (YouTube) [גיא בוגר הקורס שלי: אלגוריתמים אבולוציוניים וחיים מלאכותיים]
- StatQuest with Josh Starmer
- ML YouTube Courses
- Machine Learning Essentials for Biomedical Data Science: Introduction and ML Basics
- Artificial Intelligence Under Fire: Attacking and Defending Deep Neural Networks
Basic Reads
- Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms and Programming
- Choosing Representation, Mutation, and Crossover in Genetic Algorithms
- Introduction to Evolutionary Computing (course/book slides)
- 26 Top Machine Learning Interview Questions and Answers: Theory Edition
- 10 Popular Machine Learning Algorithms In A Nutshell
- Machine learning preparatory week @PSL
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning (coursera)
- Tinker With a Neural Network in Your Browser
- Common Machine Learning Algorithms for Beginners
- Machine Learning Intuition, 2026
Advanced Reads
- What can LLMs never do?
- Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models
- “Explainability” Is a Poor Band-Aid for Biased AI in Medicine
- Some Techniques To Make Your PyTorch Models Train (Much) Faster
- GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy
- ROC-AUC
- Why video games are essential for inventing artificial intelligence
- Agents
Books (🡇 means free to download)
- M. Sipper, Evolved to Win, Lulu, 2011 🡇
- M. Sipper, Machine Nature: The Coming Age of Bio-Inspired Computing, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2002
- J. Starmer, The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Machine Learning, 2022
- A. Narayanan & S. Kapoor, AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference, Princeton University Press, 2024
- L. Vanneschi & S. Silva, Lectures on Intelligent Systems, Springer, 2023
- Simon J.D. Prince, Understanding Deep Learning, MIT Press, 2023 🡇
- G. James, D. Witten, T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani, An Introduction to Statistical Learning, 2nd edition, 2021 🡇
- A.E. Eiben and J.E. Smith, Introduction to Evolutionary Computing, Springer, 1st edition, 2003, Corr. 2nd printing, 2007
- R. Poli, B. Langdon, & N. McPhee, A Field Guide to Genetic Programming, 2008 🡇
- J. Koza, Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992.
- S. Luke, Essentials of Metaheuristics, 2013 🡇
- A. Geron, Hands On Machine Learning with Scikit Learn and TensorFlow, 2017 🡇
- J. VanderPlas, Python Data Science Handbook
- K. Reitz, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python
- M. Nielsen, Neural Networks and Deep Learning
- Z. Michalewicz & D.B. Fogel, How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics, 2nd ed. Revised and Extended, 2004
- Z. Michalewicz. Genetic Algorithms + Data Structures = Evolution Programs. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 3rd edition, 1996
- D. Floreano & C. Mattiussi, Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Methods, and Technologies, MIT Press, 2008
- A. Tettamanzi & M. Tomassini, Soft Computing: Integrating Evolutionary, Neural, and Fuzzy Systems, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2001
- M. Mohri, A. Rostamizadeh, and A. Talwalka, Foundations of Machine Learning, MIT Press, 2012 🡇
Software
- EC-KitY: Evolutionary Computation Tool Kit in Python with Seamless Machine Learning Integration
- gplearn: Genetic Programming in Python, with a scikit-learn inspired and compatible API
- LEAP: Library for Evolutionary Algorithms in Python
- DEAP: Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms in Python
- Swarm Intelligence in Python (Genetic Algorithm, Particle Swarm Optimization, Simulated Annealing, Ant Colony Algorithm, Immune Algorithm, Artificial Fish Swarm Algorithm in Python)
- Scikit-learn: Machine Learning in Python
- Mlxtend (machine learning extensions)
- PyTorch (deep networks)
- Best-of Machine Learning with Python
- Fundamental concepts of PyTorch through self-contained examples
- Faster Python calculations with Numba
Datasets