On: Machine learning toolkit

[JamieEi]

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Bishop http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Recognition-Learning-Informati...

[jdj → JamieEi]

Note that this is a book for the more math-inclined, one will have trouble if not familiar with the basics of multivariate analysis/linear algebra.

[SeanDav → JamieEi]

Seems like a good book - bit surprised that it doesn't seem to cover Genetic Algorithms.

[levesque → SeanDav]

Genetic Algorithms are rarely covered in (recent) Machine Learning books. They are more often considered as optimization algorithms.