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Math Academy, part 1: My eigenvector embarassment

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Re: Math Academy, part 1: My eigenvector embarassment

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Post by HPMOR »

MichaelNolan wrote: post #60
ATMLOTTOBEER wrote: post #29

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It’s just ok. Certainly better than watching some random yt videos or passively reading a tb. For context I did ~11k pts to finish M4ML. It’s a little frustrating to see them chase the money and make ML/programming courses while the core differentiator (lesson quality) is still lacking in the later math topics. There are persistent issues that annoyed me so much that by the end it was like pulling teeth go grind out…

Can you go into more detail about your experience it’s difficult to find negative or critical reviews of MathAcademy. (Well except reviews in the same vein as Paul Lockhart’s A Mathematician’s Lament [1]) I’m taking their Math Foundations 2 now. So far my only two complaints are: 1. Everything feels like a random grab bag of “tricks”. There isn’t a coherent presentation of why this works or why it’s important. 2. Geo…

I know this is extremely pedantic, but I think you mean in the same "vein" instead of "vain".

Re: Math Academy, part 1: My eigenvector embarassment

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Post by MichaelNolan »

HPMOR wrote: post #61
MichaelNolan wrote: post #60

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Can you go into more detail about your experience it’s difficult to find negative or critical reviews of MathAcademy. (Well except reviews in the same vein as Paul Lockhart’s A Mathematician’s Lament [1]) I’m taking their Math Foundations 2 now. So far my only two complaints are: 1. Everything feels like a random grab bag of “tricks”. There isn’t a coherent presentation of why this works or why it’s important. 2. Geo…

I know this is extremely pedantic, but I think you mean in the same "vein" instead of "vain".

Updated. Thanks.

Re: Math Academy, part 1: My eigenvector embarassment

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Post by tyrvale4760 »

HPMOR wrote: post #23
emseetech wrote: post #19

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I'm working through Foundations specifically to do Math for Machine Learning and I'm very excited for that course. What were your thoughts on it? Also, if they ever did a Math for Computer Graphics course I'd never cancel my subscription.

I think Math for ML is __fantastic__. And based on the curriculum Jason has published for ML, it seems very __very__ promising. I've done a fair bit of ML @ Cornell, so I've had exposure to a lot of the material he plans on covering. However, I glossed over a lot of the theory because some weakness in my math. I feel like this has been remediated with M4ML and ML should expand and solidify my understanding. Edit: Wrt…

Is there another ML course besides Math for ML? If so can you share a link

I just started going through Math for ML and can also attest, it is amazing. Pedagogically revolutionary, and helping me fix up all sorts of gaps in my math background.

Re: Math Academy, part 1: My eigenvector embarassment

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Post by 3abiton »

gauge_field wrote: post #51
3abiton wrote: post #50

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I really like your approach. Any resource recommendations?

On what topic? Linear Algebra, Quantum Mechanics?

Linear algebra applications resources. Something that I can follow up with examples.

Re: Math Academy, part 1: My eigenvector embarassment

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Post by gauge_field »

3abiton wrote: post #64
gauge_field wrote: post #51

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On what topic? Linear Algebra, Quantum Mechanics?

Linear algebra applications resources. Something that I can follow up with examples.

For me, it was introductory quantum mechanics (QM) books, you can go with MIT online course from Barton Zwiebach and online course from BLIS (This is for Rust/C implementation of BLAS). If you fall in love with QM and go for more rigorous formulation of its mathematical structure, you can follow it up with An Introduction to Hilbert Space by N. Young, which was the book used in my next semester for Hilbert Space Course.

Hilbert Space is the mathematical framework to describe QM systems.

Re: Math Academy, part 1: My eigenvector embarassment

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Post by matthias_t »

3abiton wrote: post #64
gauge_field wrote: post #51

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On what topic? Linear Algebra, Quantum Mechanics?

Linear algebra applications resources. Something that I can follow up with examples.

You might enjoy "Thirty-three Miniatures" (2010) by Jiřì Matoušek. It's a collection of short applications of Linear Algebra in geometry, combinatorics and CS.

https://kam.mff.cuni.cz/~matousek/stml-53-matousek-1.pdf

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