ML educator: learning calculus was a waste of time — and my best career decision
TivadarDanka · x · 2026-10-05
ML educator Tivadar Danka posts a deliberately paradoxical take: "Calculus is a total waste of time. Learning it was the single best decision of my machine learning career" — a hook leading into his gradient descent math content.
Related event: Tivadar Danka releases the math behind gradient descent(2 posts)→
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