Artificial Neural Networks for Beginners

Re:Artificial Neural Networks for Beginners by ching_wow_ka on Thursday September 17, 2015 @08:19AM (#10232885)

If you're trying to learn about deep learning, I highly suggest using Python(Theano) or Lua(Torch). They're free and used by the experts in the field for research.

Even if you don't want to use the frameworks, you'll still have access to fast linear algebra routines.

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Re:Artificial Neural Networks for Beginners by raphaelj on Thursday September 17, 2015 @09:34AM (#10233229)

Could someone can recommend me a book about deep learning and/or machine learning for this kind of open-source library ? I do not have any background in ML nor DL.

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Re:Artificial Neural Networks for Beginners by crazypyro on Thursday September 17, 2015 @10:17AM (#10233441)

Although this is not for beginners of machine learning (learn that first), this is a book on deep learning that is currently in pre-publication and its being written by some big names in the field.

http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/dlbook/

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Re:Artificial Neural Networks for Beginners by nileshtrivedi on Thursday September 17, 2015 @10:18AM (#10233447)

NVidia has a free online course going on covering these libraries: https://developer.nvidia.com/deep-learning-courses

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Re:Artificial Neural Networks for Beginners by obsim on Thursday September 17, 2015 @10:41AM (#10233606)

Many great material of using Torch to do machine learning and deep learning from this Oxford course: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/nando.defreitas/machinelearni...

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Re:Artificial Neural Networks for Beginners by wodenokoto on Thursday September 17, 2015 @09:59AM (#10233348)

Then you might actually want to start in Matlab / Octave with Mchael Ng's coursera course on ML.

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Re:Artificial Neural Networks for Beginners by criddell on Thursday September 17, 2015 @10:20AM (#10233468)

I think you are talking about Andrew Ng's course.

I completed it and can't recommend it more highly. It is a really excellent, dense course and Ng is a very good teacher.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

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Re:Artificial Neural Networks for Beginners by joshz on Thursday September 17, 2015 @03:11PM (#10235436)

Geoffrey Hinton's archived course is all about neural nets, I think you can enroll in the archived version, no code, just theory.

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

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Re:Artificial Neural Networks for Beginners by artmageddon on Thursday September 17, 2015 @10:44AM (#10233629)

I've completed the course as well - have you used any of the knowledge from it on anything in particular after you completed the course?

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Re:Artificial Neural Networks for Beginners by zardo on Thursday September 17, 2015 @12:24PM (#10234302)

I'm taking the Coursera course right now. The course page at Stanford has a lot of student projects. The breadth of applications is pretty huge, definitely worth a check if you're looking for an idea.

http://cs229.stanford.edu

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Re:Artificial Neural Networks for Beginners by brudgers on Thursday September 17, 2015 @01:05PM (#10234615)

I am working through Ng's course currently. It is hitting the right tones against my mathsephobia...keeping me constantly in that state of semiunderstanding that is intuition, a term Ng uses often.

His choice of Octave/MatLab simplifies issues of dependencies. In particular the soft ones of documentation and community. This is something a lot of academic contexts get wrong with software: the tools are either to open ended and students wind up manipulating matrices with forloops or there's an inflexible stack of professional tools that require massive effort to learn and an orthogonal community or there is a toy IDE based on a senior thesis.

Octave more or less follows the Unix philosophy of doing one thing and thus can meet many people where they are rather than with a one true way.

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Re:Artificial Neural Networks for Beginners by physicistjedi on Thursday September 17, 2015 @03:31PM (#10235539)

I think the best introductory resources are Nielsen's book [http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/] and Hinton's online course [https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets]. If you need something specifically for Theano, they have their own tutorial [http://deeplearning.net/tutorial/].

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Re:Artificial Neural Networks for Beginners by rsy96 on Thursday September 17, 2015 @10:05AM (#10233388)

Deep learning is pretty much a field still being rapidly advanced by research. A book on it would become obsolete the day it is published.

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Re:Artificial Neural Networks for Beginners by temuze on Thursday September 17, 2015 @11:02AM (#10233728)

Theano is great! The learning curve can be a little difficult, but once it "clicks", it's nice to work with.

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