LFD was my first intro to statistical learning theory, and I think it’s pretty clear. It doesn’t cover the No Free Lunch Theorem or Uniform Convergence, though, so your review actually got me wanting to read UML. I think that if you’re already getting the rigor from UML, you probably won’t get too much out of LFD.
Ah, gotcha.
LFD was my first intro to statistical learning theory, and I think it’s pretty clear. It doesn’t cover the No Free Lunch Theorem or Uniform Convergence, though, so your review actually got me wanting to read UML. I think that if you’re already getting the rigor from UML, you probably won’t get too much out of LFD.