1. Brush up on linear algebra (matrix and vector arithmetic, etc) 2. Draw the rest of the fucking owl
can confirm, worked for me.
i am now applying to current yc batch.
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#22I want to study game AI but I don’t think I have found much material yet. I guess it is too niche now
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#23I want to study game AI but I don’t think I have found much material yet. I guess it is too niche now
https://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ has some good material on game AI. Its surface level but it does discuss SOTA methods like AlphaZero.
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#25In the coursera course accompanying the statlearning book he starts with introducing a nearest neighbour algorithm and from that he develops a linear regression.
I think that is "first principals of AI". Like, what does it even mean when we ask an algorithm to "learn" from data?
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#28Hi, it depends on what you mean by "first principles".
If you don't have a solid background in math, then that's what you should improve upon (calculus, linear algebra, discrete math, probability theory, information theory). Some of the books you mention do cover this at the beginning, but most people take separate courses on these topics at University, with lots of homework, etc.
Also, the first book on your list is the classic textbook by Norvig, but I don't think it's actually very good. I remember reading it in my college AI course 25 years ago and it was painful back then (anybody remember "wumpus"?). It's a big book that covers too much, it's like printing out a lot of Wikipedia pages. You're better off finding books with smaller scope that focus on something you actually care about / is relevant to the way the field has developed.
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#29Does anyone know how to purchase the PDF version of the book: "Artificial Intelligence, a Modern Approach"?
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#30Back in 2018 I did Andrew Ng's course in Machine Learning on Coursera. It was pretty much "from first principles" in that you learned a bit of linear algebra and then you implemented algorithms in Octave, working up to MNIST etc. I felt like I came out of it with a good understanding of the basics, and that ML is maths not magic.
Looks like the course has turned into a multi-course "specialization" and I have no idea if any of it is the aame as the course I did. But it might be a place to start.