"Machine Learning" by Tom Mitchell, "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning" by Christopher Bishop, and "Deep Learning" by Ian Goodfellow

Online communities like Reddit's r/MachineLearning or r/Data Science can be a great source of information and inspiration.

Machine learning fundamentals are easily learned using platforms like Coursera, offering free and paid courses from top universities and institutions.

1. Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

2. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

3. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR): 

4. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

5. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)