A Quick Dive into Deep Learning

Deep learning is a popular and rapidly growing area of machine learning. Deep learning algorithms are a family of machine learning algorithms that use multi-layer artificial neural networks (ANNs) to perform classification tasks. An artificial neural network is a network of artificial neurons, loosely modeled after a network of animal neurons. An artificial neuron takes a series of inputs (here, x₁ through xₙ), usually assigning each input a weight. It sums them, passing the sum through some type of non-linear function.