We will use the package MXNet R to build our neural networks. It implements state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms and enables efficient GPU computing. We can work in our familiar R environment and at the same time harness the power of the GPUs (though access to GPU is available through the Python API now, we still need to wait for it to be available for R). It will be useful to give you a small overview about the basic building blocks of MXNet before we start using it for our time series predictions.
In MXNet, NDArray is the basic operation unit. It's a vectorized operation unit for ...