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Thoughts after taking the Deeplearning.ai courses of Andrew Ng

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Between a full time job and a toddler at home, I spend my spare time learning about the ideas in cognitive science & AI. Once in a while a great paper/video/course comes out and you’re instantly hooked.

Andrew Ng’s new deeplearning.ai course is like that Shane Carruth or Rajnikanth movie that one yearns for!

Naturally, as soon as the course was released on coursera, I registered and spent the past 4 evenings binge watching the lectures, working through quizzes and programming assignments.

 

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open source tools for Deep Learning

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Source: The major advancements in Deep Learning in 2016 – Tryolabs Blog

Open source tools are everywhere (as we highlighted in our 10 main takeaways from MLconf SF blogpost). They are used and created by researchers and companies. Here is a list of the most popular tools in 2016 for Deep Learning:

  • TensorFlow by Google.
  • Keras by François Chollet.
  • CNTK by Microsoft.
  • MXNET by Distributed (Deep) Machine Learning Community. Adapted by Amazon.
  • Theano by Université de Montréal.
  • Torch by Ronan Collobert, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Clement Farabet. Widely used by Facebook.

 

GitXiv: Collaborative Open Computer Science

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Source: GitXiv: Collaborative Open Computer Science

In recent years, a highly interesting pattern has emerged: Computer scientists release new research findings on arXiv and just days later, developers release an open-source implementation on GitHub. This pattern is immensely powerful. One could call it collaborative open computer science (cocs).

GitXiv is a space to share collaborative open computer science projects. Countless Github and arXiv links are floating around the web. Its hard to keep track of these gems. GitXiv attempts to solve this problem by offering a collaboratively curated feed of projects. Each project is conveniently presented as arXiv + Github + Links + Discussion. Members can submit their findings and let the community rank and discuss it. A regular newsletter makes it easy to stay up-to-date on recent advancements. It´s free and open. Read more…