Intro to Deep Learning – Towards Data Science

We live in a world where, for better and for worse, we are constantly surrounded by deep learning algorithms. From social network filtering to driverless cars to movie recommendations, and from financial fraud detection to drug discovery to medical image processing (…is that bump cancer?), the field of deep learning influences our lives and our decisions every single day. In fact, you're probably reading this article right now because a deep learning algorithm thinks you should see it. If you're looking for the basics of deep learning, artificial neural networks, convolutional neural networks, (neural networks in general…), backpropagation, gradient descent, and more, you've come to the right place. In this series of articles, I'm going to explain what these concepts are as simply and comprehensibly as I can. If you get into this, there's an incredible amount of really in-depth information out there! I'll make sure to provide additional resources along the way for anyone who wants to swim a little deeper into these waters.