You can get a fair way these days without knowing any maths at all, the tools and libraries are very good and there are a ton of tutorials and sample code out t

You can get a fair way these days without knowing any maths at all, the tools and libraries are very good and there are a ton of tutorials and sample code out there. But what a grasp of the maths really gives you is intuition which you will really, really need as soon as you go off the beaten track. Without it you will just get bogged down in hyperparameter sweeps and other tasks that just don’t scale