Mathematics for Machine Learning

It might feel like Machine Learning (ML) has been around forever, but ML with Neural Networks (NNs) only became mainstream in the 2010s. A great example is the well-known AlexNet , developed by Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, and Geoffrey Hinton, which won the ImageNet competition by a significant margin in 2012. That was a little more than ten years ago. Back in college, from 2007 to 2009, I…