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Piero is now at Stanford :). Piero is definitely worth listening to. He's been in the weeds, knows the details and yet keeps the bigger picture in mind. Also one of the nicest peop…

The videos from the winter 2017 offering are freely available on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqdrfNEc5QnuV9RwUAhoJ... The assignments are at the class webpage t…

I took this class and can vouch for it. They update the class every year to go over recent research - not an easy task in such a fast moving field. For example, this offering cover…

Since we're on the topic of tutorials to understand neural nets and modern deep learning, I will throw in Michael Nielsen's excellently written free online "book" on neural nets. I…

I'm not too knowledgeable on how these deals work, but figured someone on HN would know: A quick Google search shows that Twilio's market cap is currently $7.4 billion. Does this $…

> Auto-encoders are overplayed, mostly because they're a pretty easy intro ML project. I think you mean "normal" autoencoders, like denoising autoencoders or the identity autoencod…

The insight that made it possible for me to grasp VAEs was digging into the probabilistic setup that leads to this formulation. The neural networks are "just" a powerful function a…