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If you have the patience, a few deep Google/Wikipedia sessions can do wonders, followed by a subscription to Pluralsight to learn whatever hard skills you might need. In my case, I'm backfilling my linear algebra / set theory / statistics learning with Coursera and Wikipedia while learning R and some NN stuff with Pluralsight. I'm trying to build something specific with it (facial recognition) so I'm also learning about that in depth (mostly through Google -> blogs/WP/articles/products/open-source). Just trying to fully comprehend the READMEs and docs of projects that look useful has given me a lot of leads.

FWIW all this math stuff a) makes way more sense with some FP knowledge, and b) is not all that hard to understand in the context of a project.

Finally, for extra immersion, start reading Data Tau (the data science version of HN). Just pick out stuff that's related to what you're working on, and then try to understand a whole article or something. That's what I did with HN and I grew exponentially as a programmer because of it.



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