Review of 'Neural Networks and Deep Learning' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Good introduction to neural networks mostly. The deep learning is only shortly discussed in the last chapter. I would rather say that it is a very long introductory article to a topic that is getting more and more importance in data science. Though it is a branch of mathematics you don't need to know any maths beyond calculus. It has a conversational type of writing, and explains formulaes in detail. Basically you can read it before going to sleep. Nice thing about the web version is that all graphs and calculations are javascript apps, so that you can play around with the parameters. After reading it you have an idea what machine learning is about, but from the application point of view you still have way to go. The whole book dicusses only one particular application, namely the recognition of hand written digits (NIST database). But how you tackle any …
Good introduction to neural networks mostly. The deep learning is only shortly discussed in the last chapter. I would rather say that it is a very long introductory article to a topic that is getting more and more importance in data science. Though it is a branch of mathematics you don't need to know any maths beyond calculus. It has a conversational type of writing, and explains formulaes in detail. Basically you can read it before going to sleep. Nice thing about the web version is that all graphs and calculations are javascript apps, so that you can play around with the parameters. After reading it you have an idea what machine learning is about, but from the application point of view you still have way to go. The whole book dicusses only one particular application, namely the recognition of hand written digits (NIST database). But how you tackle any kind of image recognition problem is left out.
