Calculus Essentials — Roadmap Step & Resources
Derivatives, gradients and the chain rule that underlie model training
- Level: beginner
- Estimated time: 2 days
- Roadmap: Machine Learning
Before this step
Interview questions
- What does a gradient actually represent, intuitively?
Study resources
- Essence of Calculus (Video) — 3Blue1Brown's legendary, intuition-first series on derivatives and the chain rule.
- Calculus Review and Reference (PDF) — Stanford CS229's course reference notes, covering the calculus needed for ML.
Part of
- Mathematics & Statistics for ML — section
- Machine Learning roadmap — the full learning path