Beginning Machine Learning: The "Hello World" of Tensor Flow

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on tensorflow.org and is being republished under the guidelines of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (more legal details at the end of the article). This tutorial is intended for readers who are new to both machine learning and TensorFlow. If you already know what MNIST is, and what softmax (multinomial logistic) regression is, you might prefer this faster paced tutorial. Be sure to install TensorFlow before starting either tutorial. When one learns how to program, there's a tradition that the first thing you do is print "Hello World." Just like programming has Hello World, machine learning has MNIST.