You are right, it is indeed difficult and I never meant to say it is easy. My tripe was with the people who intentionally make it difficult. The thing is that y

You are right, it is indeed difficult and I never meant to say it is easy. My tripe was with the people who intentionally make it difficult. The thing is that you can learn ML with minimal (not minimum) math and that is what should be tried to achieved. I would be curious to know the textbooks you talk about - I have read quite a lot of those and struggled with them. For example - Linear regression is just brilliantly tackled by Andrew Ng in his ML course (CS229 at Stanford Lecture Notes - not Coursera).