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Don't look at the prerequisites and dig right in. I don't think you'll have any problems. Linear Algebra is something that kinda stand on its own.

> this is what my whole Dependency chain looks like

You should not think like that when learning. If you want to be efficient just take shortcuts.

Learn machine learning (btw there are great courses on coursera or Stanford about that), and if you're stuck on something just check on wikipedia or another resource.