NIPS, AI hype and the lost rigor

Warning: This post contains a mixture of excitements, frustrations and rants! Today, Machine Learning/Deep Learning people have been sharing their great excitements over Ali Rahimi's talk at NIPS (from min 57 onwards). Undoubtedly, it's a great talk and you should check it out if you care about fundamental issues and the lost rigor in Deep Learning … Continue reading NIPS, AI hype and the lost rigor

Overview of Andrew Ng’s deeplearning.ai courses

In this post, I'm going to briefly write about the recently launched Andrew Ng's coursera courses in Neural Network and Deep Learning that I just finished with certificates. I want to argue that there's merit in taking these courses even if you're already familiar with some good portion of the syllabi. First a short relevant … Continue reading Overview of Andrew Ng’s deeplearning.ai courses