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A quick review of linear algebra topics that are useful to ML. See also Linear Algebra Review.
A quick review of calculus topics that are useful to ML. See also Calculus and Linear Algebra.
Basics of distributions, random variables, and statistics.
Resources: Bishop Chapters 1 & 2, http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~larry/=stat705/Lecture1.pdf, http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~larry/=stat705/Lecture2.pdf, http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~larry/=stat705/Lecture4.pdf
Basics of estimating parameters with maximum likelihood and Bayesian estimation.
Resources: Bishop Chapter 1
Basics of generative models for classification and Naive Bayes.
Resources: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook/NBayesLogReg.pdf
Basics of neural networks.
Resources: Bishop Chapter 5, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.00019.pdf, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1308.0850.pdf
Basics of nonparametric models.
Resources: Chapter 2 http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/ml2018/CMU-ML-18-105.pdf
A whrilwind tour of other topics not yet covered with an eye on previewing future topics for study after this course.