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Python Deep Learning
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Python Deep Learning

by Valentino Zocca, Gianmario Spacagna, Daniel Slater, Peter Roelants
April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
406 pages
10h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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GPU versus CPU

One of the reasons for the popularity of deep learning today is the drastically increased processing capacity of GPUs (Graphical Processing Units). Architecturally, the CPU (Central Processing Unit) is composed of a few cores that can handle a few threads at a time, while GPUs are composed of hundreds of cores that can handle thousands of threads at the same time. A GPU is a highly parallelizable unit, compared to the CPU that is mainly a serial unit.

DNNs are composed of several layers, and each layer has neurons that behave in the same manner. Moreover, we have discussed how the activity value for each neuron is , or, if we express it in matrix form, we have a = wx, where a and x are vectors and w a matrix. All activation values ...

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