I think there is also a similar book, "Mathematics For Machine Learning" by Marc Peter Deisenroth, A. Aldo Faisal, and Cheng Soon Ong, Cambridge University Press (2020)

https://mml-book.com

"a Utilitarian may reasonably desire, on Utilitarian principles, that some of his conclusions should be rejected by mankind generally; or even that the vulgar should keep aloof from his system as a whole, in so far as the inevitable indefiniteness and complexity of its calculations render it likely to lead to bad results in their hands." (Sidgwick 1874)

So I finished the Data Analysis with Python course on FCC. I have to say, the certification projects may have some library usages that were not displayed on the videos for the course (as of today). One example is scikit's linregress: you won't see an explanation on that, but you'll be required to do a linear regression, good luck if you have no math background in functions.

I am currently going through the Data Analysis with Python course on FreeCodeCamp.

I have to say, just watching a video and then answering a question is not very interactive, and has made it hard for me to keep engaging with the course.

When I was doing the certification projects for Scientific Computing with Python in December, I was interested in progressing with my project. Still, lately, I've been dreading or uninterested in watching one more video of this guy going through a Jupyter notebook.

Another thing I disliked about it is that the "exercises" already have the answers in them.

I searched for this link in Reddit and found someone recommending a FreeCodeCamp course on Data Analysis with Python with Jovian, it supposedly being more interactive (you do have to pay for submitting assignments), but I was able to see the assignments, so it might be useful in case someone wants more practice and hands-on things to do.

I think I won't switch courses halfway, I don't want to get stuck in tutorial hell.

This is a great resource, and one I've been using myself, even though I'm a software engineer, I've been doing the Python FreeCodeCamp courses because I love FCC and I don't use Python daily at work.

I think there should be a Slack workspace or a Discord server for people doing this - I've felt that getting the maths in or the pre-requisite Machine Learning concepts is not a matter of just watching a few YouTube videos.

I didn't know if it was okay for me to push the whole transcript onto here, is that usually done that way?

Yes, I think there is a growing group of "left-wing/progressive" people that attack EA with mostly lazy/old arguments. To me, I feel they have a sizable audience that genuinely care about the state of the world, and maybe we could have something like an "Anti- Anti-EA F.A.Q.", seeing as how Anti-"TESCREAL"ists are surging

Hi Amber! That intersection is one I'm interested in. I'm writing to a few people to see if they already know of a community I join, and I will be updating the post and letting anyone interested know so they can join.