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What are the concepts you are most struggling with..could you list out a few..check out metacademy.org

I never took statistics or linear algebra. Only AP calculus. So when people refer me to academic papers (or even Wikipedia most of the time) I'm not able to understand it.

I can study on my own, and have been for stats/probability. But started asking myself, why not just get a degree and make it quicker. I'd have to leave my job for a number of years, but then I'd be able to study all day instead of nights/weekends.

There's deeplearningbook.org, which starts with the basic maths and then goes into considerable detail on cutting edge work.

It assumes a math background implicitly. I feel like you need some context already to get value out of it. I wouldn't bother reading it without doing something hands on or going through another course like cs231n or fastai first. It's an excellent book regardless of the above points.

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