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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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