r/learnmachinelearning • u/Aljariri0 • Feb 14 '26

Help Statistical Learning Or Machine Learning first?

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ISLP book, I finished the first 2 chapters, but this book is not easy, and I want some guys to study this book together. Any tips to study this book?

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u/chrisiliasB Feb 14 '26

We are using this book for my Stats methods in Data Science, undergrad course. The only problem is that the prof doesn’t explain very well, so you end up relying on AI to explain concepts to you. That’s maddening how undergrads rely on AI to learn concepts even though it should have been the role of the teacher. And they wonder why we use AI…

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u/Infamous_Mud482 Feb 14 '26

You could also... read the book and do all the labs in it? This was my text book for a graduate-level machine learning course (stats department, R version) before AI during covid and the book itself was more than sufficient.

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u/chrisiliasB Feb 14 '26

Yeah, that is what I am using for homework. I usually use ChatGPT atlas combine with book pdf. It’s going good so far but I want to decrease my use of AI. I realized that using AI doesn’t make the subject interesting.