9TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK

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In this chapter, we’ll discuss how to train a neural network. We’ll look at the standard approaches and tricks being used in the field today. There will be some math, some hand-waving, and a whole host of new terms and concepts. But you don’t need to follow the math at a deep level: we’ll gloss over things as needed to get the main point across.

This chapter is perhaps the most challenging in the book, at least conceptually. It certainly is mathematically. While it’s crucially important to building intuition and understanding, sometimes we get impatient and like to dive into things first to test the waters. Thanks to ...

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