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by bochengkor 3026 days ago
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And definitely follow through his "pause and ponder" sections. If you want to build up your maths skills, it is crucial to learn how to think in the maths way. Like becoming a good programmer involves writing lots of code yourself, or to become a good dancer you need to practice your steps. For maths it's abstract thinking. Appreciation of maths is one thing, having the discipline to self-study a whole other.

Edit. Regarding your 2nd Edit: His videos are made for the broadest audience possible. I'd recommend picking any video whose topic interests you the most at the moment. You will see what knowledge you lack (take notes of these!) and can expand from there. Be it to watch his maths fundamental ((1)) series [0],[1] or just rewatch.

((1)): As in any other things, knowing your fundamentals is significant to the understanding of a topic. It won't help you at all if you can apply (copy paste) some machine learning techniques if you don't know about linear algebra at all.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjBOesZCoqc&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUvTyaaNkzM&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...

Youtube link to make it easier: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw

The calculus and linear algebra playlists are particularly excellent.