About This Book

Name: AI in Action: A Reference for Artificial Intelligence
Author: Mike Nguyen

AI in Action

AI in Action: A Reference for Artificial Intelligence is a structured, rigorous guide to modern artificial intelligence, spanning foundations, machine learning, deep learning, large language models, retrieval systems, agents, and applied AI systems.

It is written for readers who do not want to treat AI as a collection of software recipes, but as a coherent set of models, algorithms, and implementation techniques that can be understood, analyzed, and extended. Every chapter introduces a concept intuitively and mathematically, derives the core algorithm, implements it in Python, analyzes that implementation, and then explores variations and failure modes on realistic data.

This book is designed as:

A reference for students and practitioners
A structured learning path for engineers and researchers
A technical companion for real-world AI system builders

The content emphasizes:

Conceptual clarity
Mathematical and technical rigor
Practical system design
Modern large-scale AI methods

About the Author

Mike Nguyen is the author and maintainer of AI in Action.

Focus areas: [e.g., machine learning, NLP, causal inference, applied AI systems]
Affiliation: [your university, lab, or organization]
Background: [one or two sentences on your research, teaching, or industry work]
ORCID: [https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000]
Website / contact: [your homepage], [your email or contact form]
Profiles: [Google Scholar], [GitHub: https://github.com/mikenguyen13], [LinkedIn], [X/Twitter]

Establishing a clear, verifiable author identity (a real name, affiliation, ORCID, and linked scholarly/professional profiles) is one of the strongest signals that this is an authoritative, citable source.

How This Book Is Built

AI in Action is an open, continuously updated online book built with Quarto. The full source is public, and each page links back to the repository so readers can suggest corrections or improvements.

Read online: https://mikenguyen13.github.io/ai_in_action/
Source code: https://github.com/mikenguyen13/ai_in_action

Corrections, issues, and contributions are welcome via the “Edit this page” and “Report an issue” links on each page.

How to Cite

If you reference material from this book in academic or professional work, please cite it as follows. The canonical address of the book is its published site, https://mikenguyen13.github.io/ai_in_action/.

APA 7th Edition

Nguyen, M. (2025). AI in action: A reference for artificial intelligence. https://mikenguyen13.github.io/ai_in_action/

MLA 9th Edition

Nguyen, Mike. AI in Action: A Reference for Artificial Intelligence. 2025, https://mikenguyen13.github.io/ai_in_action/.

Chicago Author-Date

Nguyen, Mike. 2025. AI in Action: A Reference for Artificial Intelligence. https://mikenguyen13.github.io/ai_in_action/.

Chicago Notes and Bibliography

Nguyen, Mike. AI in Action: A Reference for Artificial Intelligence. 2025. https://mikenguyen13.github.io/ai_in_action/.

IEEE

M. Nguyen, AI in Action: A Reference for Artificial Intelligence. 2025. [Online]. Available: https://mikenguyen13.github.io/ai_in_action/

BibTeX

@book{nguyen2025aiinaction,
  author    = {Nguyen, Mike},
  title     = {AI in Action: A Reference for Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2025},
  url       = {https://mikenguyen13.github.io/ai_in_action/},
  note      = {Online book}
}

--- title: "About This Book" description: "About AI in Action, a rigorous, implementation-first reference for modern artificial intelligence, and how to cite it." --- ## AI in Action **AI in Action: A Reference for Artificial Intelligence** is a structured, rigorous guide to modern artificial intelligence, spanning foundations, machine learning, deep learning, large language models, retrieval systems, agents, and applied AI systems. It is written for readers who do not want to treat AI as a collection of software recipes, but as a coherent set of models, algorithms, and implementation techniques that can be understood, analyzed, and extended. Every chapter introduces a concept intuitively and mathematically, derives the core algorithm, implements it in Python, analyzes that implementation, and then explores variations and failure modes on realistic data. This book is designed as: - A reference for students and practitioners - A structured learning path for engineers and researchers - A technical companion for real-world AI system builders The content emphasizes: - Conceptual clarity - Mathematical and technical rigor - Practical system design - Modern large-scale AI methods ## About the Author **Mike Nguyen** is the author and maintainer of *AI in Action*.  - **Focus areas:** [e.g., machine learning, NLP, causal inference, applied AI systems] - **Affiliation:** [your university, lab, or organization] - **Background:** [one or two sentences on your research, teaching, or industry work] - **ORCID:** [https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000] - **Website / contact:** [your homepage], [your email or contact form] - **Profiles:** [Google Scholar], [GitHub: https://github.com/mikenguyen13], [LinkedIn], [X/Twitter] Establishing a clear, verifiable author identity (a real name, affiliation, ORCID, and linked scholarly/professional profiles) is one of the strongest signals that this is an authoritative, citable source. ## How This Book Is Built *AI in Action* is an open, continuously updated online book built with [Quarto](https://quarto.org). The full source is public, and each page links back to the repository so readers can suggest corrections or improvements. - **Read online:** <https://mikenguyen13.github.io/ai_in_action/> - **Source code:** <https://github.com/mikenguyen13/ai_in_action> Corrections, issues, and contributions are welcome via the "Edit this page" and "Report an issue" links on each page. ## How to Cite If you reference material from this book in academic or professional work, please cite it as follows. The canonical address of the book is its published site, `https://mikenguyen13.github.io/ai_in_action/`. ### APA 7th Edition Nguyen, M. (2025). *AI in action: A reference for artificial intelligence*. https://mikenguyen13.github.io/ai_in_action/ ### MLA 9th Edition Nguyen, Mike. *AI in Action: A Reference for Artificial Intelligence*. 2025, https://mikenguyen13.github.io/ai_in_action/. ### Chicago Author-Date Nguyen, Mike. 2025. *AI in Action: A Reference for Artificial Intelligence*. https://mikenguyen13.github.io/ai_in_action/. ### Chicago Notes and Bibliography Nguyen, Mike. *AI in Action: A Reference for Artificial Intelligence*. 2025. https://mikenguyen13.github.io/ai_in_action/. ### IEEE M. Nguyen, *AI in Action: A Reference for Artificial Intelligence*. 2025. [Online]. Available: https://mikenguyen13.github.io/ai_in_action/ ### BibTeX ```bibtex @book{nguyen2025aiinaction, author = {Nguyen, Mike}, title = {AI in Action: A Reference for Artificial Intelligence}, year = {2025}, url = {https://mikenguyen13.github.io/ai_in_action/}, note = {Online book} } ```