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by LrnByTeach 3223 days ago
Could not agree more .......

> Most of ML is fitting models to data. To fit a model you minimise some error measure as a function of its real valued parameters, e.g. the weights of the connections in a neural network. The algorithms to do the minimisation are based on gradient descent, which depends on derivatives, i.e. differential calculus.

> If you're doing Bayesian inference you're going to need integral calculus because Bayes' law gives the posterior distribution as an integral.