Is it worth learning Neural Networks?

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Hello! I study in the 11th grade. The topic of neural networks seemed very exciting to me. Tell me, does it make sense to start studying them if the knowledge of mathematics is so small? (If I'm not mistaken. Maximum for this I only know the derivative function). If it makes sense, then advise books / courses

Answer 1

Question: "does it make sense to start studying them if the knowledge of mathematics is so small?"
Answer options:
1. Since the knowledge of mathematics is "so small" it will not work to study neural networks, do something else.
2. Since the knowledge of mathematics is "so small" - tighten up the knowledge of mathematics and gradually begin to study neural networks.
Since you cannot decide this yourself, and turn to complete strangers, complete strangers for advice, this means that in fact you just want them to approve your inner choice - "there is no point in teaching." Those who understand what they really want do not ask, but take and begin to teach.
Those who really want to learn something on their own - take and search in Google. And on the first page they find:
https://habr.com/ru/company/plarium/blog/505458/
https://ai-news.ru/2018/10/podborka_resursov_po_ma...
https://ru.stackoverflow .com/questions/678970/Books...
https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2019/10/mathe...
https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/06/math-data-scienc ...
https://towardsdatascience.com/the-roadmap-of-math...

Answer 2

Of course, it is worth it, since the topic is of interest!
The most valuable thing here is focus and motivation, not to lose them by choosing a course that is too difficult or boring. We need one where everything is gradually clear. Or you can pause to read a couple of pages somewhere and understand/remember the subtopic.
I would recommend the classic: Andrew Ng course on Coursera: Machine Learning . Free, there are Russian subtitles.
As with programming, it is probably only possible, by presenting the mathematics of MashOb algorithms in general terms, to build solutions from ready-made high-level "cubes".
Without going into mathematical details, you can just try and play with networks online:

1. playground.tensorflow.org
   
2. ConvnetJS - see examples