Foundation

This page contains essential and supplementary reading materials to support your learning throughout the course. All the readings are entry level, and usually require no specialized knowledge.

Books

• The StatQuest Illustrated Guide To Machine Learning by Josh Starmer
• How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg

Online videos

• StatQuest playlist: Statistics Fundamentals by Josh Starmer
• Neural networks by 3blue1brown

And foundation concepts:

• Essence of Linear Algebra by 3blue1brown
• Essence of Calculus
• Khan Academy: Statistics and Probability

Using LLMs

Prompt engineering

• Coursera: Prompt engineering course by Google
• Prompt engineering guide in the UK Gov website
• Prompt engineering best practices by Anthropic (Claude)

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