User:IssaRice/Math resources I like - Revision history

IssaRice at 22:44, 23 March 2020

2020-03-23T22:44:46Z

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	* Terence Tao's notes and books		* Terence Tao's notes and books
	* Tim Gowers's blog (especially intro logic)		* Tim Gowers's blog and website (especially intro logic)
	* Evan Chen's infinite napkin		* Evan Chen's infinite napkin
	* mathematicalmonk's youtube videos		* mathematicalmonk's youtube videos

IssaRice at 22:44, 23 March 2020

2020-03-23T22:44:21Z

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	* Vipul's notes		* Vipul's notes
	* abstractmath.org and Charles Wells's handbook of math jargon (or whatever it's called)		* abstractmath.org and Charles Wells's handbook of math jargon (or whatever it's called)
	* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uwwH80KTQ6ht66KWxbzTIo -- pretty good lectures on statistics; the accompanying stats/probability book (by blitzstein and hwang) is the best one i've found so far (like, the only one that actually explains where the various distributions come from).		* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uwwH80KTQ6ht66KWxbzTIo -- pretty good lectures on statistics; the accompanying stats/probability book (by blitzstein and hwang) is the best one i've found so far (like, the only one that actually explains where the various distributions come from, although even this book doesn't seem to explain where the normal distribution comes from).
	* Sutton and Barto (2nd edition) -- this ''is'' still a math book (i.e. horrible compared to learning media that will be available in the future), but it's unbelievably good and polished and clear and and and... This book seems to have just about the right level of rigor+intution+repetitiveness. I really wish the book emphasized more a few things though (like, if you can rattle off the bellman equations using backup diagrams, everything in chapters 3 and 4 become trivial). you do need to know your stats/probability/analysis pretty comfortably though. what kind of madman is rich sutton (or andrew barto)? ALL other RL resources at this level are obsolete (besides to just focus your attention on the subset of the book you need, and for exercise solutions to check your work).		* Sutton and Barto (2nd edition) -- this ''is'' still a math book (i.e. horrible compared to learning media that will be available in the future), but it's unbelievably good and polished and clear and and and... This book seems to have just about the right level of rigor+intution+repetitiveness. I really wish the book emphasized more a few things though (like, if you can rattle off the bellman equations using backup diagrams, everything in chapters 3 and 4 become trivial). you do need to know your stats/probability/analysis pretty comfortably though. what kind of madman is rich sutton (or andrew barto)? ALL other RL resources at this level are obsolete (besides to just focus your attention on the subset of the book you need, and for exercise solutions to check your work).

IssaRice at 22:43, 23 March 2020

2020-03-23T22:43:41Z

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	* Vipul's notes		* Vipul's notes
	* abstractmath.org and Charles Wells's handbook of math jargon (or whatever it's called)		* abstractmath.org and Charles Wells's handbook of math jargon (or whatever it's called)
	* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uwwH80KTQ6ht66KWxbzTIo -- pretty good lectures on statistics		* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uwwH80KTQ6ht66KWxbzTIo -- pretty good lectures on statistics; the accompanying stats/probability book (by blitzstein and hwang) is the best one i've found so far (like, the only one that actually explains where the various distributions come from).
	* Sutton and Barto (2nd edition) -- this ''is'' still a math book (i.e. horrible compared to learning media that will be available in the future), but it's unbelievably good and polished and clear and and and... This book seems to have just about the right level of rigor+intution+repetitiveness. I really wish the book emphasized more a few things though (like, if you can rattle off the bellman equations using backup diagrams, everything in chapters 3 and 4 become trivial). you do need to know your stats/probability/analysis pretty comfortably though. what kind of madman is rich sutton (or andrew barto)? ALL other RL resources at this level are obsolete (besides to just focus your attention on the subset of the book you need, and for exercise solutions to check your work).		* Sutton and Barto (2nd edition) -- this ''is'' still a math book (i.e. horrible compared to learning media that will be available in the future), but it's unbelievably good and polished and clear and and and... This book seems to have just about the right level of rigor+intution+repetitiveness. I really wish the book emphasized more a few things though (like, if you can rattle off the bellman equations using backup diagrams, everything in chapters 3 and 4 become trivial). you do need to know your stats/probability/analysis pretty comfortably though. what kind of madman is rich sutton (or andrew barto)? ALL other RL resources at this level are obsolete (besides to just focus your attention on the subset of the book you need, and for exercise solutions to check your work).

IssaRice at 22:41, 23 March 2020

2020-03-23T22:41:51Z

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	* abstractmath.org and Charles Wells's handbook of math jargon (or whatever it's called)		* abstractmath.org and Charles Wells's handbook of math jargon (or whatever it's called)
	* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uwwH80KTQ6ht66KWxbzTIo -- pretty good lectures on statistics		* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uwwH80KTQ6ht66KWxbzTIo -- pretty good lectures on statistics
	* Sutton and Barto (2nd edition) -- this ''is'' still a math book (i.e. horrible compared to learning media that will be available in the future), but it's unbelievably good and polished and clear and and and... This book seems to have just about the right level of rigor+intution+repetitiveness. I really wish the book emphasized more a few things though (like, if you can rattle off the bellman equations using backup diagrams, everything in chapters 3 and 4 become trivial). you do need to know your stats/probability/analysis pretty comfortably though. what kind of madman is rich sutton (or andrew barto)? ALL other RL resources at this level are obsolete (besides to just focus your attention on the subset of the book you need).		* Sutton and Barto (2nd edition) -- this ''is'' still a math book (i.e. horrible compared to learning media that will be available in the future), but it's unbelievably good and polished and clear and and and... This book seems to have just about the right level of rigor+intution+repetitiveness. I really wish the book emphasized more a few things though (like, if you can rattle off the bellman equations using backup diagrams, everything in chapters 3 and 4 become trivial). you do need to know your stats/probability/analysis pretty comfortably though. what kind of madman is rich sutton (or andrew barto)? ALL other RL resources at this level are obsolete (besides to just focus your attention on the subset of the book you need, and for exercise solutions to check your work).

IssaRice at 22:39, 23 March 2020

2020-03-23T22:39:05Z

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	* abstractmath.org and Charles Wells's handbook of math jargon (or whatever it's called)		* abstractmath.org and Charles Wells's handbook of math jargon (or whatever it's called)
	* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uwwH80KTQ6ht66KWxbzTIo -- pretty good lectures on statistics		* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uwwH80KTQ6ht66KWxbzTIo -- pretty good lectures on statistics
	* Sutton and Barto (2nd edition) -- this ''is'' still a math book (i.e. horrible compared to learning media that will be available in the future), but it's unbelievably good and polished and clear and and and... This book seems to have just about the right level of rigor+intution+repetitiveness. I really wish the book emphasized more a few things though (like, if you can rattle off the bellman equations using backup diagrams, everything in chapters 3 and 4 become trivial). you do need to know your stats/probability/analysis pretty comfortably though. what kind of madman is rich sutton (or andrew barto)?		* Sutton and Barto (2nd edition) -- this ''is'' still a math book (i.e. horrible compared to learning media that will be available in the future), but it's unbelievably good and polished and clear and and and... This book seems to have just about the right level of rigor+intution+repetitiveness. I really wish the book emphasized more a few things though (like, if you can rattle off the bellman equations using backup diagrams, everything in chapters 3 and 4 become trivial). you do need to know your stats/probability/analysis pretty comfortably though. what kind of madman is rich sutton (or andrew barto)? ALL other RL resources at this level are obsolete (besides to just focus your attention on the subset of the book you need).

IssaRice at 22:37, 23 March 2020

2020-03-23T22:37:43Z

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	* abstractmath.org and Charles Wells's handbook of math jargon (or whatever it's called)		* abstractmath.org and Charles Wells's handbook of math jargon (or whatever it's called)
	* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uwwH80KTQ6ht66KWxbzTIo -- pretty good lectures on statistics		* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uwwH80KTQ6ht66KWxbzTIo -- pretty good lectures on statistics
	* Sutton and Barto (2nd edition) -- this ''is'' still a math book, but it's unbelievably good and polished and clear and and and... This book seems to have just about the right level of rigor+intution+repetitiveness. I really wish the book emphasized more a few things though (like, if you can rattle off the bellman equations using backup diagrams, everything in chapters 3 and 4 become trivial). you do need to know your stats/probability/analysis pretty comfortably though. what kind of madman is rich sutton (or andrew barto)?		* Sutton and Barto (2nd edition) -- this ''is'' still a math book (i.e. horrible compared to learning media that will be available in the future), but it's unbelievably good and polished and clear and and and... This book seems to have just about the right level of rigor+intution+repetitiveness. I really wish the book emphasized more a few things though (like, if you can rattle off the bellman equations using backup diagrams, everything in chapters 3 and 4 become trivial). you do need to know your stats/probability/analysis pretty comfortably though. what kind of madman is rich sutton (or andrew barto)?

IssaRice at 22:37, 23 March 2020

2020-03-23T22:37:09Z

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	* abstractmath.org and Charles Wells's handbook of math jargon (or whatever it's called)		* abstractmath.org and Charles Wells's handbook of math jargon (or whatever it's called)
	* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uwwH80KTQ6ht66KWxbzTIo -- pretty good lectures on statistics		* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uwwH80KTQ6ht66KWxbzTIo -- pretty good lectures on statistics
	* Sutton and Barto (2nd edition) -- this ''is'' still a math book, but it's unbelievably good and polished and clear and and and... This book seems to have just about the right level of rigor+intution+repetitiveness. I really wish the book emphasized more a few things though (like, if you can rattle off the bellman equations using backup diagrams, everything in chapters 3 and 4 become trivial). you do need to know your stats/probability/analysis pretty comfortably though.		* Sutton and Barto (2nd edition) -- this ''is'' still a math book, but it's unbelievably good and polished and clear and and and... This book seems to have just about the right level of rigor+intution+repetitiveness. I really wish the book emphasized more a few things though (like, if you can rattle off the bellman equations using backup diagrams, everything in chapters 3 and 4 become trivial). you do need to know your stats/probability/analysis pretty comfortably though. what kind of madman is rich sutton (or andrew barto)?

IssaRice at 22:36, 23 March 2020

2020-03-23T22:36:48Z

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	* abstractmath.org and Charles Wells's handbook of math jargon (or whatever it's called)		* abstractmath.org and Charles Wells's handbook of math jargon (or whatever it's called)
	* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uwwH80KTQ6ht66KWxbzTIo -- pretty good lectures on statistics		* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uwwH80KTQ6ht66KWxbzTIo -- pretty good lectures on statistics
			* Sutton and Barto (2nd edition) -- this ''is'' still a math book, but it's unbelievably good and polished and clear and and and... This book seems to have just about the right level of rigor+intution+repetitiveness. I really wish the book emphasized more a few things though (like, if you can rattle off the bellman equations using backup diagrams, everything in chapters 3 and 4 become trivial). you do need to know your stats/probability/analysis pretty comfortably though.

IssaRice at 05:01, 7 February 2020

2020-02-07T05:01:16Z

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	* Vipul's notes		* Vipul's notes
	* abstractmath.org and Charles Wells's handbook of math jargon (or whatever it's called)		* abstractmath.org and Charles Wells's handbook of math jargon (or whatever it's called)
			* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2SOU6wwxB0uwwH80KTQ6ht66KWxbzTIo -- pretty good lectures on statistics

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2020-01-15T08:00:53Z

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* Terence Tao's notes and books
* Tim Gowers's blog (especially intro logic)
* Evan Chen's infinite napkin
* mathematicalmonk's youtube videos
* Vipul's notes
* abstractmath.org and Charles Wells's handbook of math jargon (or whatever it's called)