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Re:Open source deep learning models that programmers can dow... by minkzilla on Friday June 16, 2017 @08:27PM (#14573567)
Do you have any recommendations for books to get into deep learning? I want some theory and math, but not too much because I do not have that much mathamitical background. I have only gone through calculus 2. (I will be taking calc 3 this coming semester). I am a computer science major.

I have dabbled in writing a super simple neural network to solve the MNIST. Using an example written in python and porting it to go, so that I couldn't copy and paste. I had to see what each step did. It very rapidly went to about 30% accuracy and stuck there. So I know I did something wrong. But I abandoned it after not being able to figure out what.

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Re:Open source deep learning models that programmers can dow... by nilkn on Thursday June 22, 2017 @01:42PM (#14613930)
Once you take calculus 3, I'd recommend diving right into the Deep Learning book: http://www.deeplearningbook.org/

It's definitely the best reference on the subject. With only calculus 3 under your belt the math won't be trivial, but it should overall be fairly approachable and certainly much more so than something like "The Elements of Statistical Learning".

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