A Deep Learning Tutorial: From Perceptrons to Deep Networks

We have some algorithm that's given a handful of labeled examples, say 10 images of dogs with the label 1 ("Dog") and 10 images of other things with the label 0 ("Not dog")--note that we're mainly sticking to supervised, binary classification for this post. The algorithm "learns" to identify images of dogs and, when fed a new image, hopes to produce the correct label (1 if it's an image of a dog, and 0 otherwise). We have some algorithm that's given a handful of labeled examples, say 10 images of dogs with the label 1 ("Dog") and 10 images of other things with the label 0 ("Not dog")--note that we're mainly sticking to supervised, binary classification for this post. The algorithm "learns" to identify images of dogs and, when fed a new image, hopes to produce the correct label (1 if it's an image of a dog, and 0 otherwise). This setting is incredibly general: your data could be symptoms and your labels illnesses; or your data could be images of handwritten characters and your labels the actual characters they represent.