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Re:Ask HN: What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI? by dtjon on Monday August 28, 2017 @11:40AM (#15117285)
Probability, and thus multivariate calculus and partial differential equations. Linear algebra. Convex Optimization, and thus multivariate and partial differential equations. Some principals of statistics is usually helpful
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Re:Ask HN: What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI? by jules on Monday August 28, 2017 @11:44AM (#15117338)
Why do you need partial differential equations? I don't think you necessarily need any knowledge of differential equations to do ML, though the top ML people certainly would know it because of their general math education.
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Re:Ask HN: What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI? by septimus111 on Monday August 28, 2017 @12:30PM (#15117824)
I spent a lot of time messing with PDEs as a student but sadly that knowledge hasn't been very useful - I've only seen them come up in quite specialised areas like optical flow...
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