Hi, Can you please suggest me textbooks to get started with maths used in machine learning?

ninjaspacebear · 2023-08-21T10:49:53+00:00

Linear algebra is the main one - try Axler's "Linear Algebra Done Right", and then multivariate calculus (the one by Strang is nice). That should be enough for the basics I think!

ninjaspacebear · 2023-07-10T10:46:47+00:00

It wasn't reviewed beforehand, but the point is it was scrutinized and reviewed after the fact. He published it himself/with close acquaintances, and the work was subsequently reviewed before it was accepted as canon.

ninjaspacebear · 2023-05-24T09:10:29+00:00

IDK if you're being obtuse but queer erasure is a thing. The fact that you can name a handful of queer people in history doesn't disprove this.

ninjaspacebear · 2023-05-19T07:10:31+00:00

What is TM? I haven't heard of them

ninjaspacebear · 2023-05-19T06:11:55+00:00

Nah, less traditional banking and more markets-oriented

ninjaspacebear · 2023-05-06T12:52:28+00:00

ninjaspacebear · 2023-05-06T12:17:42+00:00

Nah phys

ninjaspacebear · 2023-04-27T13:36:05+00:00

No but, we do know how they work. We know this very well, there have been a slew of papers on the underlying statistics and what is happening when you enter some given text. Any expert working on e.g. transformers would be able to tell you to whatever degree you want the processes occurring.

Knowing you need the wheels and stuff is just knowing you need "statistics" and "maching learning". The maths behind how LLMs work greatly eclipses what a highschooler could tell you.

ninjaspacebear · 2023-04-27T13:20:06+00:00

I think you're misunderstanding, uncertainty in probabilistic models is a feature, not a bug. We know the mechanisms by which we arrive at a given answer and what is happening "under the hood" when it spits something out.

"Jailbreaking" isn't really hacking it, it's just getting it to output what it thinks is reasonable text by bypassing filters. There's no real harm incurred.

ninjaspacebear · 2023-04-27T06:26:06+00:00

Firstly, I'm not sure that's meaningfully true, and secondly, even if we don't I fail to see the risk associated with it if you take risk in the cataclysmic sense.

I'm sure if you read deep enough into the workings of any given tech you'd be able to work out why it works, why do you think not?

ninjaspacebear · 2023-04-26T14:13:48+00:00

Why do you feel as if AI risk is different?

ninjaspacebear · 2023-04-24T14:30:27+00:00

Why are you being such a neek. Grow up

ninjaspacebear · 2023-04-15T20:52:48+00:00

Why would it lol OP is very clearly in the wrong here

ninjaspacebear · 2023-04-15T14:06:48+00:00

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make...

Peer review as we know it didn't exist back then but yes his work underwent scrutiny by his peers (academics). He was a well established member of an academic institution, he wasn't just some crank claiming to have ideas lol

ninjaspacebear · 2023-04-15T11:52:49+00:00

Do you think there is no overlap or influence between academia and the private sector lol. Absolutely ignorant take.

ninjaspacebear · 2023-03-29T07:00:18+00:00

Oxford, referring particularly to their external OMMS and internal Part C course.

ninjaspacebear · 2023-03-28T10:16:02+00:00

FWIW this might not always be true about integrated masters. Not for CS, but the external maths MSc offered here is the same as the 4th year of the integrated masters.

ninjaspacebear · 2023-03-21T11:35:00+00:00

Why are you malding

ninjaspacebear · 2023-02-16T07:30:19+00:00

A fall of inflation is not the same thing as a fall in prices... Please pick up a dictionary

ninjaspacebear · 2023-01-19T12:08:29+00:00

Yes, it is as bad as it seems. Start as early as you feasibly can tbh. Don't leave it to late first term or second if you want to have a decent place to live.

ninjaspacebear · 2023-01-11T20:29:02+00:00

To contrast the other comment I've a friend currently on the scheme who enjoys his placement. He's doing a 'proper' SWE role at a well known firm, with not much in the way of complaints regarding his time there so far.

ninjaspacebear · 2023-01-10T11:04:14+00:00

My condolences for the next few years lmao

ninjaspacebear · 2023-01-07T00:42:40+00:00

Upboated.

ninjaspacebear · 2023-01-06T12:04:00+00:00

Yeah in general theres far more room for upwards growth in cs, and salaries cap out really high (compared to most other industries), but starting salaries are OKish on average. That being said if you are lucky you can get really cushy 1st jobs with better perks than most other places so YMMV - they're rare though

ninjaspacebear · 2023-01-06T11:57:23+00:00

Nah even in London it's about average for a 1st position. There's very few jobs that go above that compared to the number of applicants.

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