An Introduction to Statistical Learning: https://www.statlearning.com

It is a free, easy introductory text by leading researchers that covers all the classics and includes many "Lab" sections with code.

It has a chapter on deep learning but doesn't cover any of the recent advances. You will need other sources for that.

I really liked Peter Flach - Machine Learning. I think it's really well versed and not as aged as AIMA

Is the book as opinionated as his blog?