Neural Networks and Deep Learning

Re:Neural Networks and Deep Learning by Nicholas_C on Friday June 20, 2014 @11:07AM (#7920986)

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?

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Re:Neural Networks and Deep Learning by iandanforth on Friday June 20, 2014 @11:19AM (#7921048)

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

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Re:Neural Networks and Deep Learning by Houshalter on Friday June 20, 2014 @11:47AM (#7921198)

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.

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Re:Neural Networks and Deep Learning by ma2rten on Friday June 20, 2014 @11:19AM (#7921050)

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.

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