Taking Machine Learning course, feel like I'm thrown on the deep end of the pool... • /r/MachineLearning

So, I'm another comp sci major, your average guy who has taken algorithms, datastructures, blah blah. I'm taking machine learning and it feels like a bunch of math with no intuition was just thrown at me. First week, professor throws a bunch of entropy equations at us, I have no clue what entropy even means, I don't know what all the equation means, what is "regression" or "information gain". I've never taken information theory before. Before I had time to digest it, we are moving to decision trees and neural networks. Those two feel more intuitive but still a lot of entropy equations to check for errors or something.