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The basics. 1 semester course for each.
by pedrosorio 3y ago
The basics. 1 semester course for each.
- apwell23 3y agothanks! I wonder if someone has compiled a resource with just enough math for ML.
- 93po 3y agoI believe fast.ai does this - they start with you using real tools and teach you the foundation as it becomes relevant
- patrick451 3y agoI'd say slightly more. Maybe it's just because I attended a state school, but I think my first semester calculus class was all single variable (20 years ago now, so my memory is rusty). You really to understand gradients and jacobians for ML, which I think was calc III for me. But you can skip curl and div part I guess.
- pedrosorio 3y agoOh, that’s right. Multivariable was Calc II for me so technically two semesters.
- apwell23 3y agohow much of that do you really use for ML
- CamperBob2 3y agoNot much of your calculus book will be relevant beyond the first couple of chapters, but you'll live and die by the numerical-method sword. The idea is that you need the analytic insight from the former to understand the latter. I don't know if I really buy that, though.