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by throwaway001231 3509 days ago
I work full-time as an ML Engineer at a big tech company in Silicon Valley. I think most ML Engineers do not read papers and do not do low level programming. They mostly do feature engineering.

Actually I feel like I forgot a lot of math since university and I would like to pick it up again. Does anyone have a resource they can recommend either for self-study or in person?

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Khan Academy is good. Also http://patrickjmt.com/
I'm reading this one math book by Richard Hamming: https://www.amazon.com/Methods-Mathematics-Calculus-Probabil...

Not sure if that's what you're looking for, but it seems to have all the stuff I forgot from college.

Disclaimer: I am the author of this Top-down learning path. Could you please take a look and give me some advice? Or If you have any opportunities, please drop me a line.
My advice would be to figure out what you want to do more concretely. Machine Learning / Data Science is a big field, if you have more concrete goal I think it would be easier.
And yet you're here, looking for math refreshers :)
I personally don't do a lot of feature engineering and I do regularly read papers, I just don't think that I am typical.