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Python Deep Learning
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Neural networks have been around for many years, and they've gone through several periods during which they've fallen in and out of favor. But recently, they have steadily gained ground over many other competing machine learning algorithms. This resurgence is due to having computers that are fast, the use ofgraphical processing units (GPUs) versus the most traditional use of computing processing units (CPUs), better algorithms and neural net design, and increasingly larger datasets that we'll see in this book. To get an idea of their success, let's take the ImageNet Large-Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (http://image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/, or just ImageNet). The participants train their algorithms using the ImageNet
database. It contains more than one million high-resolution color images in over a thousand categories (one category may be images of cars, another of people, trees, and so on). One of the tasks in the challenge is to classify unknown images...