How to get from high school math to cutting-edge ML/AI: a detailed 4-stage roadmap with links to the best learning resources that I’m aware of. - Justin Skycak

1) Foundational math. 2) Classical machine learning. 3) Deep learning. 4) Cutting-edge machine learning.

1) Foundational math. 2) Classical machine learning. 3) Deep learning. 4) Cutting-edge machine learning. Want to get notified about new posts? Join the mailing list and follow on X/Twitter. I recently talked to a number of people who work in software and want to get to the point where they can read serious ML/AI papers like Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models. But even though they did well in high school math, even AP Calculus, maybe even learned some undergraduate math… the math in these cutting-edge ML papers still looks like hieroglyphics. So, how do you get from high school…

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