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Learn TensorFlow and deep learning, without a Ph.D.

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Re: Learn TensorFlow and deep learning, without a Ph.D.

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Post by thenomad »

There seem to be a few of these "learn deep learning without heavy math" courses popping up, for which I'm profoundly grateful.

Have people found any of them to be particularly outstanding? I'd be interested - and I suspect many HN readers would be - to hear recommendations.

Re: Learn TensorFlow and deep learning, without a Ph.D.

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Post by reckoner2 »

thenomad wrote: post #2

There seem to be a few of these "learn deep learning without heavy math" courses popping up, for which I'm profoundly grateful. Have people found any of them to be particularly outstanding? I'd be interested - and I suspect many HN readers would be - to hear recommendations.

I've been really enjoying http://course.fast.ai/

Within a few hours of starting the course you'll have submitted an entry into the Kaggle Dogs vs Cats competition that scores in the top 50% of entries and achieves 97% accuracy. It's designed for coders who don't have a PHD in math. It's a very top-down approach, where you only get into mathematical details once you understand the high level models being used.

Re: Learn TensorFlow and deep learning, without a Ph.D.

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Post by fuzzythinker »

thenomad wrote: post #2

There seem to be a few of these "learn deep learning without heavy math" courses popping up, for which I'm profoundly grateful. Have people found any of them to be particularly outstanding? I'd be interested - and I suspect many HN readers would be - to hear recommendations.

I find the lectures from Jeremy Howard [1] very helpful. He points out what seems to work and what doesn't and explains things very well. I'm up to lecture 4 and enjoyed them all.

I also like Andrej Karpathy's thorough explanation for backprop in his Lecture 4 cs231n video. The links to the videos are removed from the course page [2] for some reason, just google "cs231n video" and you will find the youtube links. The page on CNN is pretty good.

[1] http://course.fast.ai/

[2] http://cs231n.github.io/

Re: Learn TensorFlow and deep learning, without a Ph.D.

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Post by codazoda »

I watched 15 minutes of the first video.

"To help more developers embrace deep-learning techniques, without the need to earn a Ph.D". Oh, good, I can do this.

"These fundamental concepts are taken for granted by many, if not most, authors of online educational resources about deep learning". Yup, true with this one as well.

Re: Learn TensorFlow and deep learning, without a Ph.D.

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Post by martin_gorner »

77pt77 wrote: post #8

What I'd like is a Learn TensorFlow and deep learning with a mathematics/physics background.

I have a background in mathematics and physics. In this course, I try to give a physical explanation whenever possible to give people good intuitions about what is happening. Level of math required: know how a matrix multiply works (and it gets re-explained)
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