On: Ask HN: What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI?

[rdudekul]

Free PDFs of some of the books mentioned:

"Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms" by David MacKaye

http://www.inference.org.uk/itprnn/book.pdf

"Probability Theory: the Logic of Science" by E. T. Jaynes

http://www.med.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/bios601/Gaussia...

"Elements of Statistical Learning" by Tibshirani

https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/Papers/ESLII.pdf

"Bayesian Data Analysis" by Andrew Gelman

http://hbanaszak.mjr.uw.edu.pl/TempTxt/(Chapman%20&%20Hall_C...

[kgwgk → rdudekul]

Note that only MacKay (that’s the correct spelling) and Hastie/Tibshirani/Friedman are legally available online.

edit: Goodfellow/Bengio/Courville, not mentioned in the previous comment, is also available online: http://www.deeplearningbook.org