At the end of each of our bootcamps we ask our students to provide us with feedback on their experience. In particular, we ask for honest assessments and opinions on how we can improve. It’s something we take very seriously at Data Science Dojo and I can list a number of changes we’ve made as a direct result of student feedback. Given that our students come from a broad spectrum of backgrounds, it is not surprising that we invariably receive feedback that distills down to, “why so much mathematics for machine learning?”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.datasciencedojo.com/mathematics-for-machine-learning/