Frameworks change every 18 months — master the century-old math first, argues researcher
TivadarDanka · x · 2026-10-29
Math/ML educator Tivadar Danka argues that three years spent mastering the latest transformer architecture is wasted if you skip basic matrix operations and calculus: frameworks churn every 18 months, but the underlying math hasn't changed in 100 years. Learn the fundamentals once and never start over.
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