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Originally Posted by TomG
dfs refugees are welcome here.
the talent level of our members here is truly amazing. i'd put our education, skills, and experience here against the department of any major tech company.
how is everyone's progress coming along? i'm about 100 pages into The Elements of Statistical Learning. thanks for the recommendation. it's full of great, practical information without being overly technical in terms of proofs and derivations (no disrespect to lagrange and his multiplier delta but we have computers now that solve optimization problems).
Thanks for the share. The biggest leak in my game is I never sit down to learn things properly because the Google + Stack Overflow + Duct Tape solution is usually all I have time to do as I'm usually working on something a few hours before contest begins.
I just downloaded it and in my initial skim, it seems like this is ideal for me. My main issues is that I have a lot of trouble getting what I specifically need. My foundational academic knowledge is non-existent but my practical usage somewhat advanced so I understand and utilize fairly advanced stuff that a layman wouldn't be doing and yet when I try to read mathematic notation, it looks like hieroglyphics to me.
I can only seem to find "If Johnny has 4 apples and 3 oranges" type learning material which doesn't help anything I need or something that assumes I've already decoded the Rosetta Stone and can see advanced notation and immediately know what it all means. Here they seem to introduce it all and break it down in the preceding paragraphs before just dumping the notation out there, which means this is something I that won't just help me formally learn many things but going forward, it'll be easier googling stuff as a refresher since hopefully I'll be capable of understanding the notation.
Been meaning to find and read a book like this for some time. Thank you for the advice.
@Lawnmower Man, I too am a DFS rake payer. Still pretty active but don't see much future in it. If interested in joining a study group on slack, send me a pm.