What machine learning? For what use case? Hot take, you probably don’t need to know the math. It’s mildly illuminating to derive that the MLE of a Gaussian dist

What machine learning? For what use case? Hot take, you probably don’t need to know the math. It’s mildly illuminating to derive that the MLE of a Gaussian distribution is the mean, but it’s also irrelevant to solving problems. Statistical reasoning is important. Being able to think about things in terms of vector spaces is good. But do I really use calculus or linear algebra much as a data scientist? No. Basically never. It’s way more impactful to say… visually and manually make a decision Tree on a 2D scatter plot of data points to grok the algorithm.