Can you get similar knowledge through books? In general what book do you recommend? I'm specifically interested in deep learning.
The math is mostly applied and not proofs. There's a fair amount of pseudocode and algorithms but they are explained well and I think it's not hard to follow (our students of different backgrounds usually didn't have problems). I did get a bit tired of the running example of the map of Romania (essentially used for all the search related things). The diagrams for algorithms are very helpful.