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by WhitneyLand 899 days ago
Looking at the theory as a whole it’s a very small minority.

I’m trying to think if it’s 0 percent outside of backprop…

Arguably high school math gets you quite a bit of understanding. After that in descending order I’d guess Linear Algebra, Statistics/Probability, Basic Calculus, Partial Derivatives…

In other words it’s not all or nothing. The easiest stuff gets you a lot of bang for your buck.

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Are you a researcher in ML? What is your focus? I'm in image synthesis/explicit density modeling.