Math for Machine Learning (2009) [pdf]

[vonnik]

https://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~hal/courses/2013S_ML/math4ml.pdf

[mrdmnd]

This is more of a primer on "the first two years of college mathematics" than a primer for Machine Learning, honestly. Still, not a bad resource.

[whage]

It would really be helpful if such mathematical papers included the pronounciation of those greek (or whatever made-up) letters at least once when they are first used.

[jmmcd]

Is there a version including the figures?

[wnoise]

Typo: the second requirement for pseudo-inverses should be Adagger A Adagger = Adagger, not A.

[blazespin]

nice, but: "probability is currently left off"

[stdbrouw → blazespin]

Two good probability cheat sheets (not primers, though) are

http://matthias.vallentin.net/blog/2010/10/probability-and-s...

https://github.com/wzchen/probability_cheatsheet

[vonnik → blazespin]

That's fair. Lots of other resources here: http://deeplearning4j.org/deeplearningpapers.html