Category: Calculus
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How to Learn the Math Needed for Machine Learning
How to Learn the Math Needed for Machine Learning Maths can be a scary topic for people. Many of you want to work in machine learning, but the maths skills needed may seem overwhelming. I am here to tell you that it’s nowhere as intimidating as you may think and to give you a roadmap, resources,…
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The Total Derivative: Correcting the Misconception of Backpropagation’s Chain Rule
The Total Derivative: Correcting the Misconception of Backpropagation’s Chain Rule This article uses concepts from this brilliant paper. For a deeper understanding of the mathematics please refer to the paper. Here we try to present the math in a more intuitive and explicit way, with some important nuances highlighted. 1 Introduction Discussions about Backpropagation often…