Deep Learning: The First Layer
It’s been something of a challenging week. We’ve kicked off our new PREDICT 490 Special Topics Course in Deep Learning at Northwestern University. I’ve got a full house; there’s been a waiting list since Thanksgiving, and everyone is acutely aware of the business climate surrounding deep learning. However (and I’m not terribly surprised here), most people who want to learn Deep Learning (DL) really don’t have a solid foundation in neural networks just yet. Thus, what we’re really doing is…