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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)? | ||
Revision as of 22:37, 23 March 2020
- 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)
- 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)?