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Deep Learning for Numerical Applications with SAS
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Deep Learning for Numerical Applications with SAS

by Henry Bequet
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
234 pages
6h 5m
English
SAS Institute
Content preview from Deep Learning for Numerical Applications with SAS

Chapter 1: Introduction

Deep Learning

Is Deep Learning for You?

It’s All about Performance

Flynn’s Taxonomy

Life after Flynn

Organization of This Book

 

Deep Learning

This is a book about deep learning, but it is not a book about artificial intelligence.

In the remainder of this introduction, we explain those two statements in detail with a simple goal in mind: to help you determine whether this book is for you.

Let’s begin by briefly discussing deep learning (DL)—more specifically, its pros, cons, and applicability. Then we will discuss the main motivation of this book: execution speed of analytics. We will defer a discussion on the mechanics of DL to Chapter 2.

For our discussion, we view DL as a technology with a straightforward goal: ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781635266771