How to start experimenting with neural networks

Posted on Tuesday, December 10 2019 @ 11:34 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
You may have heard a lot about neural networks and deep learning the last couple of years, but have you ever experimented with them yourself? If not, ARS Technica has an interesting article on how you can get started with your own neural nets. Within almost no time, you could be running your AI version of "Hello World" via the Google Colab platform.
One last piece of the puzzle is that, when dealing with neural networks, there are two major modes of operation: inference and training. Training is just what it sounds like—you give the neural network a large batch of data that represents a problem space, and let it chew through it, identifying things of interest and possibly learning to match them to labels you've provided along with the data. Inference, on the other hand, is using an already-trained neural network to give you answers in a problem space that it understands.


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Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.



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