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u/SoggyCheez · 8 pointsr/furry_irl

Damn, son. That's way bigger than my guesstimate.

The amazon prices I checked out pinned the collection closer to $400, which granted is still really, really impressive.

In case you're curious this was my textbook. It's come down by a lot in price over a couple years. Brand new it was $365 in the shrink wrap from my school's store!

Eh, either way I'm wrong, just by a different amount.

u/ShanksLeftArm · 5 pointsr/Physics

For Calculus:

Calculus Early Transcendentals by James Stewart

^ Link to Amazon

Khan Academy Calculus Youtube Playlist

For Physics:

Introductory Physics by Giancoli

^ Link to Amazon

Crash Course Physics Youtube Playlist

Here are additional reading materials when you're a bit farther along:

Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences by Mary Boas

Modern Physics by Randy Harris

Classical Mechanics by John Taylor

Introduction to Electrodynamics by Griffiths

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by Griffiths

Introduction to Particle Physics by Griffiths

The Feynman Lectures

With most of these you will be able to find PDFs of the book and the solutions. Otherwise if you prefer hardcopies you can get them on Amazon. I used to be adigital guy but have switched to physical copies because they are easier to reference in my opinion. Let me know if this helps and if you need more.

u/Micrll · 3 pointsr/worldnews

I posted this in another comment but I'm guessing this bastard?
https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Early-Transcendentals-James-Stewart/dp/1285741552/

u/southsideson · 2 pointsr/Flipping

Depends on the market depths, for a lot of books, there may be a couple low priced books where a few purchases will raise the price pretty significantly. I think a lot of booksellers have repricers that don't work very effectively where they'lll lower the price over time until it sells, and there really isnt a market for text books except for at the beginning of semesters.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1285741552/ref=olp_f_primeEligible?ie=UTF8&f_primeEligible=true

On that book, which is a pretty widely used text, If they sell about 5 books, the price rises almost $70.

u/tyrael71 · 2 pointsr/Romania

> btw ce crezi de masterul asta de la unibuc http://fmi.unibuc.ro/ro/pdf/2008/curs_master/informatica/4InteligentaArtificialaEnachescuSite.pdf , e din 2008,nu am gasit o varianta mai buna.Daca voi avea posibilitatea sa fiu acceptat l;a o facultate mai moderna care face cercetare din afara o voi face,dar mai intai trebuie sa capat o diploma din Romania).

Acum, trebuie sa intelegi ca ML si AI sunt 2 lucruri diferite. AI includes ML, si ce ai tu aici e un master general de AI. Nu pot sa iti spun cat de bun e masterul, dar vad ca faci 1 curs de ML doar in anul 2, ceea ce pentru mine ar fi un motiv sa nu il fac. Information retrieval si NLP sunt interesante, dar eu as incerca sa invat ML la nivel teoretic first, si apoi sa abordez probleme specifice domeniilor.

> Eu ma gandeam ca Unibuc e mai potrivit pt ca la Poli voi face multa electronica si programare low-level si nu cred ca le voi folosi

Ar putea fi utile daca te gandesti la un moment dat ca te intereseaza mai degraba sa fii Research engineer si sa nu lucrezi atat de mult pe teorie, cat pe implementare. Toate librariile de scientific programming sunt implementate in C/C++. Dar pe langa asta, in general programarea low-level ar fi interesant sa o inveti pentru ca te ajuta sa intelegi cum functioneaza lucrurile at a more basic level, fara x abstractii construite pentru a fi totul beginner-friendly. Daca nu vrei sa continui cu asta dupa 1-2 cursuri e ok, tot cred ca iti va folosi mai incolo. Sa inveti python si c++ in paralel e un challenge interesant :).

> Va veni vacanta de vara si voi avea mult timp liber si vreau sa ma apuc de machine learning de-acum.Ce crezi de planul asta de invatare?

Iti va lua mai mult decat 1 vara sa termini ce ai listat aici. Sfatul meu ar fi sa imbini programare aplicata cu matematica. Cursurile sunt ok, dar eu pentru matematica as incepe cu single variable calculus -> multiple variable calculus inainte de altceva (daca ai cunostintele necesare sa abordezi cursul). Uite o carte pe care ti-o recomand: https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Early-Transcendentals-James-Stewart/dp/1285741552

Are in jur de 8 sectiuni care reprezinta pre-requisites (lucruri pe care ar trebui sa le stii inainte sa abordezi cartea), algebra, geometrie de baza, etc. Fiecare invata diferit, eu prefer cartile.

Legat de programare, incearca sa faci probleme de aici: https://projecteuler.net/, te va ajuta mai incolo :). Si daca te plictisesti incearca construiesti lucruri care ti-ar fi utile. Vei invata destule din proiecte de genul.

u/ThrowawayPUA · 1 pointr/seduction

I recommend this book.

u/Rofl2themao · 1 pointr/EngineeringStudents

Sometimes you can find what textbook your school uses before the semester starts (I'm also the weird kid that emails the professor asking about books if I cant find it >.>). Some of my professors have what material they use for each class on their personal web pages though. For calculus, you'll most likely use this book. My brother used it at his Uni my friend at another and I myself used it at mine. Not sure if you're registered yet though. I had a weird case going into my Uni because I did community college then took summer courses so I was enrolled earlier than students who transfer and probably the freshman. YouTube videos will also be your best friend. People I liked for my math classes are TrevTutor (I don't think he ever finished his Calc 2 series) and PatrickJMT. Hope this helps a bit if you have any other questions or need more clarifications don't hesitate to ask.

u/foreheadteeth · 1 pointr/compsci

That depends on your own level, your goals and your ambition. For example, OP wants to learn machine learning. Assuming OP's highschool math is solid, it might be possible for OP to simply download pytorch and immediately start programming neural networks without worrying too much about the hardcore math in the background.

On the other hand, if OP is more serious about improving as a mathematician, and assuming nothing but highschool math, I would start with linear algebra and differential and integral calculus. The famous professor Gil Strang has an excellent book on linear algebra, which is strangely available online. For differential and integral calculus, probably the standard reference is Stewart's book. At this point, OP would have all the basic things needed to start with machine learning. I'm not aware of the literature for machine learning so I can't recommend any specific books.

If OP wanted to get sidetracked learning more things before plunging into machine learning then the obvious choice would be Scientific Computing (my friends wrote an excellent book on the subject). Scientific Computing is the science of calculating things using computers and supercomputers. In addition, the area of Mathematical Optimization is good to know because Stochastic Gradient Descent is omnipresent in machine learning, but I don't know enough about optimization to recommend a book. There is Boyd and Vandenberghe but that is only for convex optimization. Some more areas that are related and useful are Probability and Statistics.

u/MahatmaGandalf · 1 pointr/AskPhysics

I strongly suggest you take your time learning calculus, because anything you don't grasp completely will come back to haunt you.

But the good news is that there are lots of great resources you can use. MIT OCW has a full course with lectures, notes, and exams. Here are three free online books. If you're looking to buy a textbook, some good choices are Thomas, Stewart, and Spivak. (You can find dirt-cheap copies of older editions at abebooks.com.)

If you want more guidance, another great place to find it is at /r/learnmath.

u/human_soap · 1 pointr/UofT

https://www.amazon.ca/Calculus-Early-Transcendentals-James-Stewart/dp/1285741552

Pretty sure it's this one. You should be able to find a pdf online.

u/Banshee90 · 1 pointr/Libertarian

you do know that a digital copy of the text book isn't free. And no you can't use the price for a digital copy that you can buy for personal use. There would be a rental charge. The calc book I used for 3 semester of calculus in College is $32/semester to rent. so that means schools are probably paying round $50/year for each digital copy of a text book.

So if you think a school book costs $250 it becomes cheaper than rental after the 5th year (not even including the increased cost of the chromebook and "insurance" required by the student.

Rental

https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Early-Transcendentals-James-Stewart-ebook/dp/B00T9X7THG/ref=sr_1_6?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1536864274&sr=1-6

physical copy

https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Early-Transcendentals-James-Stewart/dp/1285741552/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1536864274

u/dtog · 1 pointr/Destiny

Textbooks in the US are priced for what students will pay, not for their actual cost, because the textbook market isn't a free market for students. You either buy the course's reccomended textbook, or find some other way to access the material. You can't shop between different publishers of the same book, unless you start looking at international editions.

>Paying for content btw

u/Naman77 · 1 pointr/yorku

For calc MATH 1300/1014 and 1310/1014 you need , buy it new from the bookstore cause you will need the online code for assignments also it’s useful for calc 3 if you wanna take that. Man Wong is a good prof I had him for both 1300 and 13010

For EECS 1019 you need it’s not that useful and PDF can be found online for free and no online assignments so no need to buy it new. I had Zhihua Chang he’s a new prof but really nice but his lectures are boring. Trev tutor on YouTube is really helping with the course.

For Math 1025/1021 you need I found the book helpful but unlike calc some profs tend not to use this book so I’d hold out of buying it but most profs use lyryz which is an online assignment program so you will need to buy that. I had Paul Skoufranis, amazing prof but had tests. The book is also useful for linear 2 but again depend if the prof uses it

For EECS 1022 you need
It’s a good book and the guy you wrote it teaches the class.

PM if you have any other questions

u/RobertFuego · 1 pointr/learnmath
u/Nascosta · -6 pointsr/ucf

> Turning in assignments should not be locked behind a pay wall. A student should not fail the class just because they didn't buy it.

You're not wrong, but I have a few issues with that.

First, do you really believe that the school does not have a system in place to help those that genuinely cannot afford it? Every class I've had that mentioned Cengage had the teacher explicitly mention that if paying for it was a problem, to get in contact with them.

As I mentioned, I used to go to a different school. $125 per semester, required by every math class I took. It's a good step down for me to pay that much in a year.

Second, we've got 750 students this semester in Calc 3 alone. I've got 3 assignments that were due yesterday, and 2 more due Monday.

If all the assignments only had 6 questions each, that's ~22k questions to be graded this week. Somebody has to do it. UCF is apparently even making their own software/site for this, but regardless of when it gets finished you know we're gonna foot the bill. One way or another we pay for this shit to get done.

> Also, access codes hurt the used textbook market.

You're not wrong but if we can get the textbook + assignments graded for the same price, what's the big deal?

Renting my textbook for Calculus would have cost the same as paying for access, and I covered both Physics classes too (along with whatever else I want to study on)

Beside the point either way. My issue was that the OP was full of shit, not 'Oh poor Cengage.' My bad for expecting people here to read instead of jumping in on another circlejerk.