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by schappim 504 days ago
As someone your age who struggled with maths, has kids, and shares your goals, I found Mathematics for Machine Learning[1] (available as a free PDF or on Amazon) and Khan Academy [2] to be great resources.

I used those along with a few exercise books and a Casio FX-82ES Plus 2nd Ed.

My advice: keep practising maths every day, or you’ll just forget it again.

You can also copy and paste complex maths problems or papers directly into an LLM - it does a decent job of explaining them. If you get stuck, try the "Explain it like I’m n" trick, decrementing n until it makes sense.

[1] https://mml-book.github.io/book/mml-book.pdf

[2] https://www.khanacademy.org/