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A Guide to Deep Learning and Neural Networks

What’s a neural network and what makes it “deep?”

Serokell
Better Programming
13 min readOct 16, 2020

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As a subset of artificial intelligence, deep learning lies at the heart of various innovations: self-driving cars, natural language processing, image recognition, and so on. Companies that deliver DL solutions (such as Amazon, Tesla, Salesforce) are at the forefront of stock markets and attract impressive investments. According to Statista, the total funding of artificial intelligence startup companies worldwide in 2014–2019 is equal to more than $26 billion. This high interest can be explained by the amazing benefits of deep learning and its architectures — artificial neural networks.

bar chart showing total funding of artificial intelligence startup companies worldwide from 2014 through 2019

What Is Deep Learning?

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Deep learning is one of the subsets of machine learning that uses deep learning algorithms to implicitly come up with important conclusions based on input data.

Usually, deep learning is unsupervised or semi-supervised. Deep learning is based on…

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