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What math do you know? You can quickly get started with PyTorch but usually people employed as AI/ML engineers have a heavy math background.

That said, it’s nothing too crazy. Most of deep learning is just linear algebra and optimization. For general data science, statistics and probability should be your main focus in my opinion.




+1 for the linear algebra recommendation. Optimization is good to know, but might not be essential, since there are good implementations of most of the cutting edge algorithms in the ML libraries.

If you need a visual overview of linear algebra concepts, check out this concept map from my book: https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/linear_algebra_...




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