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0 pointscorysama7y ago0 comments

If you want to do machine learning, those two ops are pretty much the foundation of how it works under the hood.

If you want to do coding in general, I like to say that you can have a career in code without being good at math. But, math is how great coders do what seems like magic to other coders.

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jmkni7y ago· 2 in thread

That’s a really nice way of putting it.

As a grown up who has already been working as a software developer for ~10 years, do you have any recommendations on books to read, courses to do etc if I want to improve my maths? I’m not terrible, but I know I could be a lot better!

anpat7y ago

I was on the same boat as yours about 3 months ago and I picked up 3 books based on HN comments;

1. No bullshit guide to Maths and Physics [1]

2. No bullshit guide to Linear Algebra [1]

3. A programmer’s introduction to mathematics [2]

I haven’t gone through the books completely but I’m halfway through the ‘no bullshit..’ books and I liked them based on how easy they were for me to approach.

May be they also fit your learning style as well? Hope this helps and happy learning.

[1] : https://minireference.com

[2] : https://www.amazon.com/dp/1727125452

shriek7y ago

I'm same as you too but I did have some background in math from college but I've been rusty on them already.

- I know it's said over and over again but KhanAcademy is pretty good for high-school math - For probability, I'm also going over this website[1] at the moment. Maybe someone else has other recommendations too - Linear Algebra is next on my list but others have given some reference for it already - Andrew Ng's course on Machine Learning from Coursera is also another frequently recommended if you are trying to learn math for it

[1] https://www.probabilitycourse.com/

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