I was extremely frustrated with my machine learning class because of this. The notation used was hazy. Also if you ask me, probability theory should just be squashed and the ideas reformulated with new more consistent syntax / symbols, because the entire thing is so damn inconsistent and disorganized at present.
>Also if you ask me, probability theory should just be squashed and the ideas reformulated with new more consistent syntax / symbols, because the entire thing is so damn inconsistent and disorganized at present.
How do you mean? Probability doesn't even have that much complicated symbolism... although I do wish we would teach in probability courses how to translate between random-variable "distributed according to" notation and actual density functions. As in, I wish I knew how to do that.
