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Natural Language Processing in Action
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Natural Language Processing in Action

by Cole Howard, Hobson Lane, Hannes Hapke
April 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
544 pages
17h 29m
English
Manning Publications
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5 Baby steps with neural networks (perceptrons and backpropagation)

This chapter covers

  • Learning the history of neural networks
  • Stacking perceptrons
  • Understanding backpropagation
  • Seeing the knobs to turn on neural networks
  • Implementing a basic neural network in Keras

In recent years, a lot of hype has developed around the promise of neural networks and their ability to classify and identify input data, and more recently the ability of certain network architectures to generate original content. Companies large and small are using them for everything from image captioning and self-driving car navigation to identifying solar panels from satellite images and recognizing faces in security camera videos. And luckily for us, many NLP applications ...

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