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Think Linear Algebra (2023)

77 pointsby tamndtoday at 9:40 AM6 commentsview on HN

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staplungtoday at 4:25 PM

Allen Downey (author of the above) has a number of books on computer science-y things. You can buy hardcopies but I think all of them are also just freely available.

Here's a few:

Think Complexity

https://github.com/AllenDowney/ThinkComplexity2

Think DSP

https://github.com/AllenDowney/ThinkDSP

Think Stats

https://github.com/AllenDowney/ThinkStats/

Think Bayes

https://github.com/AllenDowney/ThinkBayes2/

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s-zengtoday at 2:51 PM

Matrix multiplication introduced before vector addition... the "Linear Algebra Done Right" in me is screaming inside.

That being said, it is definitely cool to have a Jupyter-notebook based set of examples of practical linear algebra

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The_Bladetoday at 3:43 PM

Linear Algebra is dope, as in when we got to apply some mid-level linear to a real business problem and it worked i got high

fnord77today at 3:41 PM

I got my hands on a stanford Math 55 textbook and tried to do the exercises in numpy.