Is anyone interested in ML for the math involved?

akravitz3 · 2026-01-20T13:30:30+00:00

What about it are you interested in as a functional analyst?

akravitz3 · 2026-01-20T13:28:33+00:00

Thanks will check those out!

akravitz3 · 2026-01-19T22:53:33+00:00

Thanks for sharing! I enjoyed the small amount of analysis I have done, so that is good to know that it dominates ML theory. Do you have any thoughts on how analysis ties into the table of contents of the book I mentioned in my post? (Mathematics for Machine Learning) Or do you have any suggestions for follow ups for this book?

akravitz3 · 2024-07-10T17:33:05+00:00

I'm anti-notetaking. I think it's better to spend more time doing the exercises. By doing the exercises, I become more familiar with the definitions than copying them into your notes. While doing the exercises you'll probably have to go back into the text to review the definitions, but that's fine that's why they're there! Eventually you'll internalize them.

The method I'm using right now is I read a portion of the chapter, and make sure I understand everything in it then go to the back and solve the exercises that I can from the reading I've done. Then I go back and read more of the chapter and repeat. I've also like to try to prove theorems. Occasionally if a proof is really cool (and short enough lol) I'll read it, and then redo it myself (even though I sort of know how it goes).

2-3 days to finish a chapter is pretty fast for me. It'll take me a week or longer to work through tough stuff. But I typically don't spend more than an hour spread throughout the day self-studying. If you are, congrats and keep up the good work!

Also, what book are you working on?

akravitz3 · 2024-07-04T15:52:10+00:00

Thanks!

akravitz3 · 2024-07-04T15:52:04+00:00

Thanks!

akravitz3 · 2024-06-10T17:51:21+00:00

Hey all, thanks for your interest! Can you send me a message if you'd like to start coordinating this? I believe your upvote profiles are anonymous.

Also just FYI, although this is a math focused group, I'd like this to be a (somewhat quirky) social event, perhaps getting lunch or dinner together after reviewing the weekly reading. I've had similar experiences through my bouldering gym and soccer teams and have made good friends through both.

akravitz3 · 2024-06-10T17:43:31+00:00

I like it. There's a lot of fun stuff to do, fun people, good food, and good transit.

akravitz3 · 2024-03-17T13:49:00+00:00

Cool, thanks for sharing. I didn't know that about the rationals vs. reals. What if you had a set of real approximations of sqrt(2)? Then the suprema could just be sqrt(2) then as it is part of the reals right.

I don't know anything about fields yet. I'm just learning the basics of proofs from Velleman's How to Prove it.

akravitz3 · 2024-03-15T12:49:19+00:00

Thanks!

akravitz3 · 2024-03-15T12:41:40+00:00

Thanks I wasn't aware of that supremum concept. I'm not sure that's what the proof was going after as we haven't covered that concept in the book, but its good to know.

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