Thank you for the link, I used to subscribe to r/math at one point. However, my problem is a bit different. I am looking to re-learn the stuff I had gone through in college, as opposed to many people on r/math (as well as the audience for that post I presume) who want to cover new ground in math.
I seem to have just forgotten a lot of stuff or maybe not studied it right the first time around. Still I'll look at the books there, I'm sure there should be a significant overlap in my goals and those of people who want to start learning math.
I have Spivak's book actually, I got the hardcover from a used book store several years ago. It did seem a bit daunting to me from what I recall, I had used Tom Apostle's book when studying calculus back then.
I'll give more time to working through Spivak, hopefully it feels more approachable this time around.
Thanks, I will look into it I was under the impression that Khan Academy is for people new to the subject? I will check out the calculus and algebra lectures there.
Thanks, solving questions before reading sounds like an excellent strategy, especially given that I'm supposed to have read it all before. Now I will try to make a list of books to work on.
Thank you, that sounds like a good idea. I may start looking into the HN api. I have been working to build a search engine for reddit using their api for a week now (not very mature, I have only started to build a database of tags for the posts) but I believe this idea will work here as well.
May I know which books/courses/blogs you used to learn machine learning? I'm learning it myself and I have just finished reading "Programming Collective Intelligence".
Sure, I started off with Andrew Ng's course on coursera. Then I started with the book called Machine Learning by Tom Mitchell. I also have the PCI book to supplement Mitchell's book with code examples. I got Bishop's book too but to be honest I'm finding it a little harder to follow than the others.
I'm almost through Andrew Ng's course. Did you do all the programming activities to reinforce the lectures? I've been keeping pace with the lectures, but hadn't done the homework/programming. Now I'm going back and completing them one-by-one.
I was thinking about watching Tom Mitchell's CMU course online next. Have you checked that out?
PS. Is it just me or is Andrew Ng incredible? I thought I had good professors in college, but he is on another level.
No I am exactly in the same place. I missed the programming activities (I was going to use numpy instead of octave and it turned out to be too much of an effort). I have re-enrolled in the course going on now so I am also going to do the assignments now.
Also thanks for mentioning Tom Mitchell's course, I didn't know about it. I will be sure to check it out.
And yes I agree Andrew is a great teacher. It became even more obvious when I tried to read up on areas he had not covered in the course.
Thanks for the suggestion, I actually did sign up to kaggle a couple of days ago and am working on some of their problems. I was looking for something more internet related as getting in data from the internet and grouping or ranking it feels more immediately fun to me.
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On the other hand whenever a movie from Reliance entertainment comes out they want to avoid the cams to spread for the first few weeks so they block these sites. Once the first couple of weeks have passed they undo the blocks.
I seem to have just forgotten a lot of stuff or maybe not studied it right the first time around. Still I'll look at the books there, I'm sure there should be a significant overlap in my goals and those of people who want to start learning math.