Deep Learning Series, P3: Understanding Recurrent Neural Networks

1. Why RNNs?Your smartphone predicting your next word when you are typing, Alexa understanding what you are saying or tasks like making stock market predictions, understanding movie plots, composing music, language translation and human learning: can you tell what is the common theme in this list? These are examples where sequence of information is crucial.For...

Deep Learning Series, P1: Basics of Neural Networks and Understanding Gradient Descent

This post consists of the following two sections: Section 1: Basics of Neural Networks Section 2: Understanding Backward Propagation and Gradient Descent Section 1 Introduction For decades researchers have been trying to deconstruct the inner workings of our incredible and fascinating brains, hoping to learn to infuse a brain-like intelligence into machines. For example, when...

Machine Learning Algorithms 101

This blog post is for the newbies who want to quickly understand the basics of the most popular Machine Learning algorithms. I am assuming that you have read the previous article regarding types or categories of algorithms. If not, I would suggest you to read that first. In this quick tour you will learn about:...