March 2020
Beginner to intermediate
342 pages
8h 38m
English
To upgrade our system to multiple variables, you’ll need to know about two operations on matrices. I don’t want to introduce those operations at the last moment, while we’re busy coding. Instead, we’ll take a few pages to get them out of the way now.
A matrix is a bi-dimensional array. For example, here is a (4, 3) matrix, meaning that it has four rows and three columns:

The two operations that we’ll cover are matrix multiplication and matrix transpose. Both are ubiquitous in ML, and each deserves its own section.
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