"If the last math class you took was 20 years ago, ESL probably seems rather intimidating." Actually, only ten years ago. :-) But I do need a refresher. Just s

"If the last math class you took was 20 years ago, ESL probably seems rather intimidating." Actually, only ten years ago. :-) But I do need a refresher. Just started working on it recently. I feel actually smarter today than I felt back then, so I don't think will hurt that much. "The good thing is that most of the book requires only calculus and linear algebra. By brushing up on those topics first, you could be in a position to understand most of the basics of machine learning." Yeah, I've noticed. The scope of the whole book is vastly overblown for my needs, my application (NLP-related) won't probably need more then the basic stuff, but any good material at my disposal helps.