It is good enough to not need heavy math to begin.
Yeah, I know.
But you need a lot of math to do Deep Learning.
But I do not think Howard tries to communicate that.
You can't show me people who knows high school math
only and gets to work in FAANG, or PhD in DL/related, or CTO of an AI start-up, or anyhow "made it" in DL.
I think co-writing and co-teaching a math course at a deep learning company he co-founded, pinning that to the github repo and moving it close to the top of the home page makes it pretty clear he does see value in math in deep learning. I mean, if you need other evidence beyond than the fact that he teaches math needed to understand and build things from scratch in the deep learning course...
In the courses he has always been clear you don't need a ton of math to begin. He's also always been clear that as you progress you will encounter math that you need to learn to continue. He's always clear that that is ok if you don't know it before you start and it's ok to learn it when you need it.
Yeah, I know.
But you need a lot of math to do Deep Learning.
But I do not think Howard tries to communicate that.
You can't show me people who knows high school math only and gets to work in FAANG, or PhD in DL/related, or CTO of an AI start-up, or anyhow "made it" in DL.