read excerpt

Manning Early Access Program (MEAP) Read chapters as they are written, get the finished eBook as soon as it’s ready, and receive the pBook long before it's in bookstores.

5 of 14 chapters available

Resources

chapter briefs Book forum more

customers also reading

read now

pro 24ドル.99 per month

• access to all Manning books, MEAPs, liveVideos, liveProjects, and audiobooks!
• choose one free eBook per month to keep
• exclusive 50% discount on all purchases
• renews monthly, pause or cancel renewal anytime

---

lite 19ドル.99 per month

• access to all Manning books, including MEAPs!

---

team

5, 10 or 20 seats+ for your team - learn more

---

Understand the enduring algorithms behind modern AI and data science.

Timeless Algorithms explores the breakthrough algorithms that power modern AI—including Bayes’ prior and posterior beliefs, Fisher’s estimation and likelihood, Shannon’s information gain, and Breiman’s algorithmic modeling. With clarity and rigor, statistics expert Gary Sutton unpacks each concept and explains its practical relevance.

Timeless Algorithms: The seminal papers will help you to:

• Diagnose model failures by detecting bias, drift, and overfitting early
• Connect tools to theory by linking modern methods to their intellectual roots
• Interpret model behavior for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Balance accuracy and ethics by weighing performance against transparency and fairness
• Think probabilistically by applying Bayesian inference, entropy, and expected value
• Design trustworthy systems by making deliberate, well-founded choices about data, loss, and structure
• Recognize hidden assumptions by uncovering what every model quietly believes about the world
• Apply automation tools—such as generative AI and AutoML—while maintaining interpretability and human oversight

Timeless Algorithms explains both the how and the why of the most important data science algorithms. Along with the theory and practical application, you’ll get the fascinating stories behind the discoveries by Bayes, Fisher, Shannon, Bellman, and others. You’ll especially appreciate how author Gary Sutton makes the sometimes-complex seminal papers come to life in rich detail.

add to reading list ▾