@hasantoxr: Michael Nielsen wrote a free online book that teaches neural networks from scratch. It is called Neural Networks and De…
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Michael Nielsen's free online book 'Neural Networks and Deep Learning' teaches neural networks from first principles with browser-based code, covering key topics like backpropagation and convolutional networks.
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Michael Nielsen wrote a free online book that teaches neural networks from scratch.
It is called Neural Networks and Deep Learning.
And it costs $0.
Nielsen builds all of them up from first principles, with code you can run in your browser.
It covers:
Perceptrons and sigmoid neurons The full network architecture Handwritten digit recognition from scratch Learning with gradient descent Backpropagation, step by step Cross-entropy and softmax Overfitting and regularization Weight initialization Why deep networks are hard to train The vanishing gradient problem Convolutional networks Recent progress in deep learning
Basically, the stuff that makes the math of neural networks stop feeling like a black box.
This is the difference between someone who runs training scripts and someone who could implement backprop on paper.
The best part:
You do not need a math degree. You do not need a GPU. You do not need a paid course. You do not need to be enrolled anywhere.
You can read the whole book online today.
Link: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com
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