Feb 24
Catching up
2018 is looking busy, but there’s still a lot left from 2017 that I didn’t write about or wrap up.
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Jul 10
Udacity Deep Learning Nanodegree — Part 3
I found TensorFlow initially confusing but then quite comfortable. It’s odd how after programming in a language like Python for a while, it becomes confusing that you have to declare “placeholders” (variables) and constants up-front, then initialize them.
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Jun 26
Udacity Deep Learning Nanodegree – Part II
I left last week’s PyData Meetup with more questions than answers. Questions like “why does that neural net I just wrote perform the way it does?” So, with a couple of weeks left until the next project is due, I decided to go back and revisit the second half of the neural networks topic before moving forward.
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Jun 21
Udacity Deep Learning Nanodegree – Part I
There is little here that I could not learn on my own. But I find that it’s useful to learn along with others, and the structure that programs like this provide can be useful, so long as it isn’t too expensive. For myself, the structure and ability to discuss issues and problems with others were the key things that made this summer’s effort worth the $600.
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