Deep Learning in R

Deep learning has a wide range of applications, from speech recognition, computer vision, to self-driving cars and mastering the game of Go. While the concept is intuitive, the implementation is often heuristic and tedious. We will take a stab at simplifying the process, and make the technology more accessible. We illustrate our approach with the venerable CIFAR-10 dataset. The following code snippet will download the data from its known location to a folder "data/cifar" inside the current workspace.