Appendix C. Introduction to NumPy
We don’t expect any NumPy knowledge from the readers and try to put all the required information in the chapters as we go along. However, because the purpose of the book is to teach machine learning rather than NumPy, we couldn’t cover everything in great detail in the chapters. That’s the focus of this appendix: to give an overview of the most important concepts from NumPy in one centralized place.
In addition to introducing NumPy, the appendix also covers a bit of linear algebra useful for machine learning, including matrix and vector multiplication, matrix inverse, and the normal equation.
NumPy is a Python library, so if you’re not yet familiar with Python, check out appendix B.
C.1 NumPy
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