> it's hard to make any useful program if you don't have at least a clear conceptual understanding of what you're trying to do. Completely - I've run into the

> it's hard to make any useful program if you don't have at least a clear conceptual understanding of what you're trying to do. Completely - I've run into the exact issues you were talking about. Trying to really understand ML without some foundation in stats doesn't work well. I was wondering about code examples, not as a copy/paste solution ala Stack Overflow, but to use as a Rosetta stone to aid in learning. I've seen something similar for physics equations and chunks of the Quantum wave formula and they were pretty enlightening. "Oh, that's what that means..." I can follow the logic of a chunk of C pretty well, especially with decent variable names, but I would probably need a long time to catch-up on all the math, from both a syntax and conceptual perspective without some sort of crutch.