r/MachineLearning - [D] What deep learning papers should I implement to learn?

"A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style" is very intuitive to understand and not terribly difficult to get going. Plus you don't need crazy hardware as you work with pre-trained models. "Human Level Control Through Deep Reinforcement Learning" is much more complicated, but very rewarding when you get it right as you can watch a machine learn to play your favorite childhood games. And, you'll get a strong grasp of your framework of choice, good debugging techniques, and how to effectively leverage training time on a back-end.