Fundamentals of Linear Algebra and Optimization [pdf]
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Fundamentals of Linear Algebra and Optimization [pdf]
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Re: Fundamentals of Linear Algebra and Optimization [pdf]
#2This is great!
There's so much hype about machine learning but so few people seem to appreciate the fundamental importance of linear algebra (especially in ML).
This fast.ai course is also great: http://www.fast.ai/2017/07/17/num-lin-alg/
Re: Fundamentals of Linear Algebra and Optimization [pdf]
#3Is this going to be a textbook? I can't find it in print, but it looks like a great text.
Re: Fundamentals of Linear Algebra and Optimization [pdf]
#4This is great! There's so much hype about machine learning but so few people seem to appreciate the fundamental importance of linear algebra (especially in ML). This fast.ai course is also great: http://www.fast.ai/2017/07/17/num-lin-alg/
Cool new course! I'm thinking about taking their Practical Deep Learing for Coders course at the moment: http://course.fast.ai/
Re: Fundamentals of Linear Algebra and Optimization [pdf]
#5Is this going to be a textbook? I can't find it in print, but it looks like a great text.
Good question. I'm honestly not sure. I just stumbled across it while looking for linalg resources. It appears to be legit, since the author is with UPenn and it's on a upenn.edu site. But I don't see an explicit license notification or anything, so not sure if you're even allowed to print it out yourself or not.
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#6Folks looking for introductory books in this area may also enjoy this new in-progress book: https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/vmls/
As a follow-up I would recommend Trefethen & Bau, Numerical Linear Algebra.
Re: Fundamentals of Linear Algebra and Optimization [pdf]
#7This is great! There's so much hype about machine learning but so few people seem to appreciate the fundamental importance of linear algebra (especially in ML). This fast.ai course is also great: http://www.fast.ai/2017/07/17/num-lin-alg/
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#8Is this going to be a textbook? I can't find it in print, but it looks like a great text.
It's probably the course book that the professor or department wrote for the specific course because they couldn't find a textbook that covered the material they wanted in the way they wanted. A lot of courses at U of M had them in the 90s; you'd buy the course book from a local printer's shop as a tape-bound, soft-cover book. They were very nice because they covered exactly what you needed using the same language as the professor. It was like having notes you could read before the lectures.
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#9If you're into Clojure, there is a fast linear algebra library Neanderthal (I'm the author) that covers both GPU and CPU, is easy to use, and comes with lots of tutorials that cover a linear algebra textbook chapters, as well as more advanced numerical computing uses (solvers, factorizations, etc.):
The list of guides is here: http://neanderthal.uncomplicate.org/articles/guides.html
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#10I took Prof. Gallier (the author of this document)'s class when I was a graduate student at Penn.
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~jean/home.html
It is one of the class I enjoyed the most when I was there. Some of his other books are quite enjoyable as well.
Dr. Gallier's PhD work was focused on logic, but his current research has a lot to do with computer graphics and computational geometry. He spent a long time study graduate-level algebraic geometry and algebraic topology while having the duty to be a professor at computer science department. His stories is always an inspiration for me to learn more.