Dear colleagues. My lecture notes "The Shallow and the Deep - A biased introduction to neural networks and old school machine learning" have been published by University of Groningen Press: https://books.ugp.rug.nl/index.php/ugp/catalog/book/130 The book is available as open access e-pub (pdf) and non-profit print-on-demand (softcover) from various sources, see https://www.cs.rug.nl/~biehl/mpubl.html for some links. Best wishes, Michael -- --------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Michael Biehl Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence P.O. Box 407, 9700 AK Groningen, NL https://www.cs.rug.nl/~biehl m.biehl@rug.nl