Book: Mathematics for Machine Learning

Re:Book: Mathematics for Machine Learning by theCricketer on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @11:34PM (#16751673)

I've mentioned this on HN before but I think its still relevant to people interested in learning ML who feel they are behind on the math. If, like me, you can't sit thru lots of pages of mathematics text and instead prefer that a human explains it to you via videos that you can replay, here is a list of courses that take you from basic algebra and pre-calculus math all the way to the concepts you need to understand the principles behind the most advanced ML algorithms. All explained by very energetic people who are experts in their fields, and starting from the very basics.

This covers calculus, linear algebra, probability, statistics, convex optimization and a math for ML course thrown in for the HN audience:

(The first two are "MOOCs" recorded in the 1970s! probably the first ever recorded MOOC, even before the internet, and the lecturer is absolute gold)

Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus | MIT https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-006-calculus-revisited-....

Calculus Revisited: Multivariable Calculus | MIT https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-007-calculus-revisited-....

Complex Variables, Differential Equations, and Linear Algebra | MIT https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-008-calculus-revisited-....

Linear Algebra | MIT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK3O402wf1c&list=PLE7DDD9101....

Introduction to Linear Dynamical Systems |Stanford https://see.stanford.edu/Course/EE263

Probability | Harvard https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uwwH80KTQ6....

Intermediate Statistics | CMU https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcW8xNfZoh7eI7KSWneVW....

Convex Optimization I | Stanford https://see.stanford.edu/Course/EE364A

Math Background for ML | CMU https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7y-1rk2cCsA339crwXMW....

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Re:Book: Mathematics for Machine Learning by vecter on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @04:04AM (#16752922)

These are great resources, but the ultimate approach is wrong. In order to truly learn math, you must be willing to invest the time and "sit through lots of pages of mathematics text" and also do a ton of problems, many of which will take hours and some which will require days of thinking.

I you aren't willing to invest the energy and effort to do that, all the video watching won't do anything for you. It will get you 5% of the way at best. The true learning comes from staring at a problem for hours, trying 100 dead ends, and then finally having an insight two days later while taking a shower that suddenly make that intractable problem seem trivial.

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Re:Book: Mathematics for Machine Learning by mindcrime on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @09:03AM (#16754276)

These are great resources, but the ultimate approach is wrong. In order to truly learn math, you must be willing to invest the time and "sit through lots of pages of mathematics text" and also do a ton of problems, many of which will take hours and some which will require days of thinking.

These things aren't mutually exclusive. I don't know about anybody else, but I'd rather watch a video of a human explaining the subject, then sit down with a textbook and start working through problems.

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Re:Book: Mathematics for Machine Learning by vecter on Thursday April 05, 2018 @04:20AM (#16762911)

Of course they're not, but OP kind of implied that it wasn't necessary to read a lot of pages of mathematics when he said

> you can't sit thru lots of pages of mathematics text

Even if you watch those videos, you still need to sit through lots of pages of mathematics if you want to master the subject.

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Re:Book: Mathematics for Machine Learning by nagarc on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @01:06AM (#16752116)

Many of the links are not working

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Re:Book: Mathematics for Machine Learning by thomanq on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @06:43AM (#16753527)

Links as per the original comment [0]

Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus | MIT https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-006-calculus-revisited-...

Calculus Revisited: Multivariable Calculus | MIT https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-007-calculus-revisited-...

Complex Variables, Differential Equations, and Linear Algebra | MIT https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-008-calculus-revisited-...

Linear Algebra | MIT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK3O402wf1c&list=PLE7DDD9101...

Introduction to Linear Dynamical Systems |Stanford https://see.stanford.edu/Course/EE263

Probability | Harvard https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uwwH80KTQ6...

Intermediate Statistics | CMU https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcW8xNfZoh7eI7KSWneVW...

Convex Optimization I | Stanford https://see.stanford.edu/Course/EE364A

Math Background for ML | CMU https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7y-1rk2cCsA339crwXMW...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14581962

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Re:Book: Mathematics for Machine Learning by nagarc on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:18PM (#16761508)

Thank you

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