Learning Math For Machine Learning And Artificial Intelligence Programming

Last year, I started writing about my experiences taking courses on machine learning and artificial intelligence. One of the big, unexpected problems I ran into was calculus and linear algebra. I've found that many online courses say you don't need much mathematics fundamentals to be a programmer, but inevitably, even in beginner courses, the underlying math was important to understand what was going on. The need for remedial math seems widespread enough that even a simple Google search for'calculus and artificial intelligence' turns up a bunch of blogs and additional courses on how to understand the math underlying these assignments. After spending a lot of time online trying to sort through this haystack of do-it-yourself calculus blogs, college class PDFs, and other resources, I came away with two websites that were outstanding for teaching basic calculus and linear algebra: Khan Academy and an on-demand tutoring service called Yup.