Is deep-learning-book open source?

Yes — zsdonghao/deep-learning-book is an open-source project tracked on heatdrop.

How popular is deep-learning-book?

zsdonghao/deep-learning-book has 573 stars on GitHub.

Where can I find deep-learning-book?

zsdonghao/deep-learning-book is on GitHub at https://github.com/zsdonghao/deep-learning-book.

zsdonghao/deep-learning-book

Piracy with a conscience: the Goodfellow PDF bundle

Someone scraped the free HTML of the canonical deep learning textbook and glued it into a single PDF, then asked you to buy the paper copy anyway.

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What it does

This repo hosts a single-file PDF of the MIT Deep Learning textbook by Goodfellow, Bengio, and Courville. The author scraped the freely available HTML from deeplearningbook.org, concatenated it, and added a Chinese translation for good measure. It is exactly what it says on the tin: a convenience repackaging, not a remix.

The interesting bit

The README contains a guilt trip that almost works: “PLEASE SUPPORT IAN GOODFELLOW and the authors if you can purchase the paper book at Amazon.” It is not often you see a repo simultaneously distribute a work and beg you not to let that distribution cannibalize sales. The $72 price tag is even quoted with a straight face.

Key highlights

Single PDF of the complete English text, plus a separate Chinese PDF
Sourced from the official free HTML at deeplearningbook.org
Includes the canonical BibTeX citation entry
Points readers to the official Google Groups forum for actual questions
573 stars suggests many people find “download once, read offline” preferable to “leave 47 browser tabs open”

Caveats

The README warns the print version is “probably” newer and “without typographic mistakes,” which is a candid admission that this scrape may have formatting glitches
No code, no exercises, no errata — just the text

Verdict

Grab this if you want the standard deep learning reference in a single offline file and your internet is intermittent. Skip it if you already tolerate browser-based reading or own the physical book; you are not missing a secret layer of commentary.

Frequently asked

What is zsdonghao/deep-learning-book?: Someone scraped the free HTML of the canonical deep learning textbook and glued it into a single PDF, then asked you to buy the paper copy anyway.
Is deep-learning-book open source?: Yes — zsdonghao/deep-learning-book is an open-source project tracked on heatdrop.
How popular is deep-learning-book?: zsdonghao/deep-learning-book has 573 stars on GitHub.
Where can I find deep-learning-book?: zsdonghao/deep-learning-book is on GitHub at https://github.com/zsdonghao/deep-learning-book.