Epistemic status: a few projects in ML, technically “a professional ML engineer” right now but I don’t think I’m good enough to get hired by one of the big EA-ML orgs right now.
Two points re the start of your math sequence
A lot of calculus is geared toward engineers and the way engineering is taught, leaving a gap in the basic language of mathematics that IME can be filled by discrete math. This pays dividends when you’re reading wikipedia and research papers later. It doesn’t take long to get ahold of sets and logic with trevtutor.
Single variable calculus may require exercises. I find it really odd that you think 3b1b gets the job done- it probably doesn’t. Luckily, single variable calculus is well before you’ve maxed out khanacademy’s wonderful exercises widget. Some ways of doing the rote calculations is a waste of time (like professors who don’t seem to realize that if you’ve derivative’d one polynomial you’ve taken every polynomial), but the rote computations really pay dividends in your overall sophistication level (from the symbolic find-and-replace game to mystery solving even to thinking on your feet about applications.
Epistemic status: a few projects in ML, technically “a professional ML engineer” right now but I don’t think I’m good enough to get hired by one of the big EA-ML orgs right now.
Two points re the start of your math sequence
A lot of calculus is geared toward engineers and the way engineering is taught, leaving a gap in the basic language of mathematics that IME can be filled by discrete math. This pays dividends when you’re reading wikipedia and research papers later. It doesn’t take long to get ahold of sets and logic with trevtutor.
Single variable calculus may require exercises. I find it really odd that you think 3b1b gets the job done- it probably doesn’t. Luckily, single variable calculus is well before you’ve maxed out khanacademy’s wonderful exercises widget. Some ways of doing the rote calculations is a waste of time (like professors who don’t seem to realize that if you’ve derivative’d one polynomial you’ve taken every polynomial), but the rote computations really pay dividends in your overall sophistication level (from the symbolic find-and-replace game to mystery solving even to thinking on your feet about applications.