Google's Free Deep Learning Course

Post by datawrangler » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 1:14 AM UTC

wrsh07 wrote: post #29

jokoon wrote: post #26

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I was just beginning to give it a try, it just requires you to type the code that is shown on video. Poor way of teaching something, it seems at first. I sense this course is just to teach me the tools of the trade, not really enabling students to fully understand what they're doing. On the other hand, some months ago I watched the ML course by Andrew Ng, and I still did not understand how to test a simple linear reg…

From the yc reading list 2015 [ http://themacro.com/articles/2015/12/yc-2015-reading-list/ ], they recommend [for Neural Networks] this book: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/ It's more about understanding than "learning tools."

Post by pjscott » Sat, Jan 23, 2016, 7:54 PM UTC

wrsh07 wrote: post #29

jokoon wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was just beginning to give it a try, it just requires you to type the code that is shown on video. Poor way of teaching something, it seems at first. I sense this course is just to teach me the tools of the trade, not really enabling students to fully understand what they're doing. On the other hand, some months ago I watched the ML course by Andrew Ng, and I still did not understand how to test a simple linear reg…

From the yc reading list 2015 [ http://themacro.com/articles/2015/12/yc-2015-reading-list/ ], they recommend [for Neural Networks] this book: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/ It's more about understanding than "learning tools."

Post by cowsandmilk » Mon, Jan 25, 2016, 1:39 AM UTC

cpal90 wrote: post #64

Hi guys one question sorry if it's answered somewhere but why does the title say "Free" course? is it free cause of the trial period or the whole course is free as of now? If the whole course is free are there more free courses on this site? Thanks for the reply.