This book doesn't seem massively different from several other existing textbooks. There are also several good textbooks on deep learning specifically (I'd recommend the new Bishop)
This textbook is hardly irrelevant for people who only care about deep learning though. It covers regularisation, optimisation, overparameterised models, double descent and err, neural networks. Sounds pretty relevant to me?
If you think the rest of the book is irrelevant then skip it.
You sound a bit nutty when you confidently state nobody uses any of the other methods in this book. How could you possibly know that?
This textbook is hardly irrelevant for people who only care about deep learning though. It covers regularisation, optimisation, overparameterised models, double descent and err, neural networks. Sounds pretty relevant to me?
If you think the rest of the book is irrelevant then skip it.
You sound a bit nutty when you confidently state nobody uses any of the other methods in this book. How could you possibly know that?