Deep Learning Specialization by Andrew Ng  –  21 Lessons Learned

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By Ryan Shrott, Chief Analyst at National Bank of Canada.I recently completed all available material (as of October 25, 2017) for Andrew Ng’s new deep learning course on Coursera. There are currently 3 courses available in the specialization:Neural Networks and Deep LearningImproving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparamater tuning, Regularization and OptimizationStructuring Machine Learning ProjectsI found all 3 courses extremely useful and learned an incredible amount of practical knowledge from the instructor, Andrew Ng. Ng does an excellent job of filtering out the buzzwords and explaining the concepts in a clear and concise manner. For example, Ng makes it clear that supervised deep learning is nothing more than a multidimensional curve fitting procedure and that any other representational understandings, such as the common reference to the human biological nervous system, are loose at best.The specialization only requires basic linear algebra knowledge and basic programming knowledg…