Tag: deep learning
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Data Science and the Essential Terms
I was honored to be able to provide the data science introductory article for the Special Data issue of AL MAGNET magazine. The article is titled, Data Science and the Essential Terms. It provides a description of data science and an example workflow. It also points out some of the key terms in data science…
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Deep Learning in 2015 at Oxford
Nando de Freitas taught a deep learning course at the University of Oxford. All of the videos are freely available. The playlist is a bit out of order, but starting with Lecture 1 is probably the best technique.
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Free Deep Learning Book
Yoshua Bengio, Ian Goodfellow and Aaron Courville are writing a deep learning book for MIT Press. The book is not yet complete, but the drafts of the chapters are all available online. The authors are also collecting comments about the chapters before the book goes to press. The book is broken into 3 sections: Math…
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Next.ML Machine Learning Conference
If you are based near San Francisco and interested in machine learning, the Next.ML conference is going on this weekend, January 17, 2015. The conference is a bunch of workshops covering the latest trends in: DEEP LEARNING PROBABILISTIC PROGRAMMING PARALLEL LEARNING JULIA OTHER MACHINE LEARNING TOPICS AND TOOLS The lineup of speakers is great, coming from…
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Learn some Deep Learning in 2015
Here are some great resources to kickstart your deep learning. Deep Learning in Nutshell – nicely detailed blog post Deep Learning Resources – so many good resources, more than I will list here, follow the link Deep Learning Tutorial – just like the title says Deep Neural Networks are Easily Fooled – Proof that deep…
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Wisdom from Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton recently did a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything). It contains some good information related to neural networks and deep learning. Also, below is a lengthy video of a distinguished lecture Geoffrey gave at the Toyota Technological Institute in Chicago.
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Deep Learning in Java
Deep Learning is the hottest topic in all of data science right now. Adam Gibson, cofounder of Blix.io, has created an open source deep learning library for Java named DeepLearning4j. For those curious, DeepLearning4j is open sourced on github. Below is a video of Adam introducing deep learning and DeepLearning4j. Also, if you are interested…
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Neural Network and Deep Learning Book
Chapter 1 of Michael Nielsen’s Deep Learning Book is available online. The chapter provides an introduction to neural networks. When completed, the book will be completely free and open-source. You are welcome to contribute to the fundraising efforts for the book.
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More Deep Learning Resources
Recently, MIT Technology Review ran an article about the new uses of deep learning at Facebook. Facebook would like to use deep learning to understand more about its users. They have assembled quite a team. If you are looking to learn more about deep learning, Andrew Ng, cofounder of Coursera, has some course materials on…
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Deep Learning – A Term To Know
Deep Learning is a new term that is starting to appear in the data science/machine learning news. What is Deep Learning? According to DeepLearning.net, the definition goes like this: Deep Learning is a new area of Machine Learning research, which has been introduced with the objective of moving Machine Learning closer to one of its…