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by iyasu 942 days ago
ChatGPT's recommendation to learn statistics/calculus serve as a foundation for learning machine learning since it utilizes concepts from the above subjects (e.g if you understand derivates/slope, you'll understand inherently how gradient descent works).

If you just want to tinker around with models and try it out, feel free to go into it without much math knowledge and just learn them as you go. ChatGPT's recommendation is great if you have a multiyear horizon/plan to be in ML (e.g. perfect for a college student who can take courses in stats/ML side by side) or have plenty of time.

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I have a lot of experience using and building APIs, and I do want to switch to ML/AI in this space but I have no clue how. I don’t really care much about building them from scratch, but I want to be able to read code bases and comprehend it. So I guess a middle ground between using it and building it.