# ML Pipeline Resources — Sage's workspace

## Knowledge — the ML side

- [An Introduction to Statistical Learning (James, Witten, Hastie, Tibshirani)](https://www.statlearning.com/)
  Free official PDF. Use for: the formal treatment behind everything in the deck — linear/softmax regression, kNN, evaluation.
- [StatQuest with Josh Starmer — YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@statquest/videos)
  Short, visual, intuition-first. Use for: a second, purely-mathematical pass on any concept once the philosophical version has landed, to keep both registers sharp.
- [Fairness and Machine Learning — Barocas, Hardt, Narayanan](https://fairmlbook.org/)
  Free draft. Use for: the "equal rule ≠ equal burden" material — pairs naturally with the dharma/right-action material below.

## Knowledge — the philosophical side

- [Yoga Sutras of Patanjali — multiple translations & commentary](https://www.hinduwebsite.com/hinduism/yogasutrasMain.asp)
  Sutra 3.9 (among others) addresses the arising and suppression of *samskaras* — the impressions accumulated experience leaves behind, which then shape future perception. Use for: the fitted-model-as-samskara throughline (lesson 1).
- [Bhagavad Gita 2.47 — Prabhupada translation, verse-by-verse](https://vedabase.io/en/library/bg/2/47/) and [comparative translations](https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/shrimad-bhagavad-gita/d/doc419785.html)
  "You have a right to your actions, but never to the fruits of your actions." Use for: the policy/threshold question — δ as an act of duty distinct from the knowledge (s) it's based on.
- ["Finger pointing at the moon" — origin in the Śūraṅgama Sūtra](https://essenceofbuddhism.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/what-the-finger-pointing-to-the-moon-analogy-really-means-from-zen-buddhism-the-buddha-in-the-shurangama-sutra/)
  The teaching: mistake the pointing finger for the moon itself and you grasp neither. Use for: f vs. f̂ — the model is never the true, unknown thing, only a finger pointed at it.
- *Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind* — Shunryu Suzuki
  Not yet linked to a specific free text; note as a gap. Use for: epistemic humility and impermanence, relevant to why probability (not certainty) is the honest description of an uncertain world.

## Wisdom (Communities)

- No community preference stated yet — not proposing proactively until asked.

## Gaps
- No single online source yet found for *Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind* — if Sage wants to go deeper there, a physical/library copy may be needed.
- STOR 323 syllabus/textbook not yet confirmed for this section either (same gap as the other workspace) — if there's an assigned text, share it.