Neural Networks and Deep Learning

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by Anon84 • 12 years ago

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guiambros2• 12 years ago

Again?

I love this, and bought the (unfinished) book since it was 1st announced, but it's the 3rd or 4th time this is posted here.

The duplicity algorithm clearly needs improvement. Maybe this book could help.

michael_nielsen4• 12 years ago

I'm the author. Thanks for the support! And I'm glad you're enjoying the book.

The HN search results suggest that this is the second time the book has made it to the HN front page.

However, you may have picked up a different impression because the second chapter -- a largely self-contained introduction to backpropagation -- also made it once onto the front page. Given that I'm rolling out chapters as I finish them, this seems to me like multiple posts from the same blog appearing on the front page. Certainly, the individual chapters are (I hope) far more substantive than most blog posts.

(For the record, I had no idea this would be posted.)

jbarrow• 12 years ago

The parent mentioned that he bought the book, but I can't seem to find anywhere on the site to contribute. I've followed this book since it was first posted on Hacker News, and I would love to be able to give back. Is there a place to donate or "buy" the book?

larrydag• 12 years ago

I've submitted to http://hackershelf.com/book/525/neural-networks-and-deep-lea...

Great work Michael. Sorry about my errant email to you.

misiti3780• 12 years ago

hey - im pretty exciting about this also - when is it slated to be finished ?

guiambros2• 12 years ago

I've found 8 so far [1][2][3]. Some are exact duplicates, some point to / while others to /index.html, /about.html, etc.

Note: most submissions were done by real and reputable users, so I'm not implying any foul play here. Quite the opposite; I backed the original project on Indie Gogo, and am pleased with the progress so far. Would strongly recommend anyone interested in the topic to donate to Michael (BTC address below).

My gripe is with HN duplicity detector, that let people submit equal or very similar links, over and over again.

[1] Book: (some are exact duplicates)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7920183

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6796703

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7555191

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7143192

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6801036

[2] Indie Gogo:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6795285

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6794584

[3] Original Blog post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6796917

Nicholas_C• 12 years ago

I find this stuff fascinating. I would love to study this formally but I only have a finance degree. What do people study to pursue this at a graduate level? Math/Comp Science?

iandanforth• 12 years ago

From Hinton's course on coursera:

Recommended Background

Programming proficiency in Matlab, Octave or Python. Enough knowledge of calculus to be able to differentiate simple functions. Enough knowledge of linear algebra to understand simple equations involving vectors and matrices. Enough knowledge of probability theory to understand what a probability density is.

https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets

ma2rten• 12 years ago

Normally Computer Science, certainly not Math. My university had a separate graduate program for Artificial Intelligence.

Maybe also Neuroscience or Psychology, but they usually use other kinds of neural network models, which are more biologically plausible.

Houshalter• 12 years ago

http://www.metacademy.org/ is a great tool that shows you all the prerequisites of a concept. As well as those concepts prerequisites and so on, and where you can go to learn them.

kumarishan• 12 years ago

Still long way to deep learning stuff. I have seen this book in almost same state in last posts. But the content so far are great, especially for understanding neural network and hands on experience.

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