{"id":7,"date":"2020-05-12T00:45:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T00:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2024-09-02T01:06:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T01:06:13","slug":"a_few_resources_to_get_into_deep_learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/12\/a_few_resources_to_get_into_deep_learning\/","title":{"rendered":"A few resources to get into Deep Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-529\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/falconius_assets\/2020\/05\/deep_learning.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-529\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image from quantdare.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Before making some recommendations I&#8217;d like to mention that I don&#8217;t have the absolute truth, this is simply a path that resonates with me because my personality is geared towards more practical resources. I usually like to delve into theory after I know the basics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that I made that clear, these are some resources I&#8217;d recommend to the young me if I were to start learning this from zero:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manning.com\/books\/deep-learning-with-python\">Deep Learning with Python<\/a>: written by the great Francois Chollet, creator of the Deep Learning framework called Keras. It&#8217;s in my opinion an almost perfect book for someone who&#8217;s just starting, it contains chapters with the right balance between theory and practice with great code examples. Python is the programming language used in the book and Keras the framework, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;d be a problem if you don&#8217;t know them beforehand.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/course.fast.ai\/\">Deep learning for coders<\/a>: what a great course! It&#8217;s open, free, has a top-down approach, starting with a working projects and then slowly delving into each piece of code. It&#8217;s more complete than the mentioned book but a little more disorganized if you want to learn something specific. For example, if you want to know how a CNN works, you&#8217;ll have to watch several lessons ir order to see the whole picture. So maybe if you don&#8217;t do the whole course there&#8217;ll be some concepts you won&#8217;t fully grasp. A nice approach would be to consume this course and the book in parallel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\nIf you conciously read and watch those two resources you&#8217;ll have a nice grasp of the theory and practice and you&#8217;ll be able to apply the knowledge to your own projects or start working for someone else. You won&#8217;t be an expert after it, give it a little time and experience :P.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After that, there are several options depending on your own needs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Start working in your own projects, learn as needed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Go through domain specific Deep Learning courses. If you&#8217;re interested in Medical AI, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/specializations\/ai-for-medicine\">this<\/a> is an interesting one.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Compete with other people on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaggle.com\/\">Kaggle<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Go deep in theory, maybe with this great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deeplearningbook.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book<\/a>, Stanford has great detailed courses also.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\nThat&#8217;s it, simple and short. Of course that there&#8217;s a gazillion of courses, tutorials, projects, open repositories, workshops and other materials in the web, my advice is to just pick something and have the determination to follow through. It&#8217;s really easy to drown in a sea of resources nowadays, simplicity is the best way to avoid it.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before making some recommendations I&#8217;d like to mention that I don&#8217;t have the absolute truth, this is simply a path that resonates with me because my personality is geared towards more practical resources. I usually like to delve into theory after I know the basics. Now that I made that clear, these are some resources [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":1,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aunhumano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}