Currently writing about learning mathematics for machine learning via math academy | Senior data scientist with 5+ years of experienceJoined August 2023
Coding all of the ML models that are typically contained within libraries is a good idea but has some limitations - unless you have the math foundations in place
This is something I found when I tried to code all of the algorithms from scratch myself and why I decided to go one…
Daily Math Academy
Working towards mathematics for machine learning
• Achieved 29/30 XP
• Lesson on calculating dy/dx using dx/dy took a little longer than expected and ran into some errors
• I managed to score 11/12 XP on this by the end and feel that I understand the…
I’ve been in the online learning space for a while now - 8+ years probably in terms of trying to do courses to upskill in my daily job.
I think there’s a real opportunity here that math academy has made me aware of since starting it.
There’s a real lack of serious up-skilling…
Daily Math Academy
Working towards mathematics for machine learning
• First math academy session since coming back from vacation
• Achieved 39/30 XP
• Scored full marks and bonus points on 2 of the lessons and full marks on the other
• Lessons were integrating algebraic…
I had some time off for vacation the past few weeks and will be getting back to math academy on Monday.
This time gave me some time to stumble on an idea of why in the past I was so frustrated with online learning and self learning, here's some thoughts out loud.
I used to be a…
Daily Math Academy
Working towards mathematics for machine learning
• Smaller XP gained today in 16/30 - forgive me it was a Friday afternoon and I ran out of paper
• Completed 2 lessons in chain rule with logarithms and coterminous angles scoring full marks in both but made…
Daily Math Academy
Working towards mathematics for machine learning
• Achieved 41/30 XP in a 45 minute session
• Completed quiz 17 scoring 8/15 XP - the questions I answered I got right but forgot how to do some of them
• Completed 3 review lessons scoring full marks and…
A realisation that I had with doing @_MathAcademy_ recently is that I very rarely get myself into a state of rushing to finish a course or objective
The progress bar is a nice reminder of where you are heading but unlike other online courses where I couldn’t finish them quick…
Daily Math Academy
Working towards mathematics for machine learning
• Achieved 30/30 XP in a 30 minute session
• Completed 2 lessons scoring full marks and the bonus points in both
• Lessons were sum rule for indefinite integrals and properties of the unit circle in the…
Daily Math Academy
Working towards mathematics for machine learning
• Achieved 30/30 XP in a 45 minute session
• Completed 2 lessons both scoring full marks and the bonus points
• Happy with this as these lessons were slightly larger in 12XP each in size
• Lessons were…
Daily Math Academy
Working towards mathematics for machine learning
• Achieved 24/30 XP in a 45 minute session
• Completed 2 lessons both scoring full marks and the bonus points
• Lessons were range of transformed radical functions and plotting X as a function of y
•…
Daily Math Academy
Working towards mathematics for machine learning
• Achieved 27/30 XP for a 50 minute session
• Achieved 156 XP for the entire week
• Completed 3 lessons
• Graphing cubic curves 14/15 XP - made some arithmetic errors and misunderstood what the double root…
Daily Math Academy
Working towards mathematics for machine learning
• Gained 46/30 XP today surpassing the daily goal in a 50 minute session
• Scored full marks and bonus points on 3/4 lessons
• I was especially pleased with this on some of the lessons which had high XP…
So I saw this post the other day and to my surprise I was able to understand it quite quickly - which is a change from a few months ago
If you had shown me this before I would have known it’s summing some numbers and could probably have googled the rest to figure it out piece by…
So I saw this post the other day and to my surprise I was able to understand it quite quickly - which is a change from a few months ago
If you had shown me this before I would have known it’s summing some numbers and could probably have googled the rest to figure it out piece by…
Daily Math Academy
Working towards mathematics for machine learning
• Gained 21/30 XP
• 45 minute session today, 1 quiz and 1 review lesson
• Scored full marks and bonus points on the quiz which I was happy about
• Scored 3/5 on the review lesson for limits of radicals…
Math academy is forcing me to realise how ineffective my study practices where when I was at high school and university
Practicing recall > note taking
Oh how much time did I waste doing this
Daily Math Academy
Working towards mathematics for machine learning
• Gained 33/30 XP
• 45-50 minutes session today and tackled 3 lessons
• Got full marks and bonus points on 2 of them and scored 6/7 on infertile functions
• Cubic functions and differentiating logarithms…
Daily Math Academy
Working towards mathematics for machine learning
• Gained 29/30 XP
• 30 minute lesson but still managed to rack up the required XP or close to it
• All 3 lessons scored full marks + bonus points
• Lessons were trig ratios using radians, angles in the…
Daily Math Academy
Working towards mathematics for machine learning
Daily Math Academy
Working towards mathematics for machine learning
• Completed 65/30 XP - almost double the XP I target each day
• This was a day where I aimed to catch up on the time I missed during the…
Daily Math Academy
Working towards mathematics for machine learning
• Achieved 20/30 XP today
• Ran out of time to do my usual session but kept the momentum up with a smaller session in the time that I had available
• Scored 11/11 XP for the sum and constant rules for…
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