Episodes 4

1 But what is a Neural Network?

October 5, 2017

Introduction to neural networks.

2 Gradient descent, how neural networks learn

October 16, 2017

The goal of this video is to introduce the idea of gradient descent and to analyze a specific network.

3 What is backpropagation really doing?

November 3, 2017

What's actually happening to a neural network as it learns?

4 Backpropagation calculus

November 3, 2017

This one is a bit more symbol heavy, and that's actually the point. The goal here is to represent in somewhat more formal terms the intuition for how backpropagation works in part 3 of the series, hopefully providing some connection between that video and other texts/code that you come across later.

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