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Why Focusing on Machine Learning Alone Isn’t Going to Solve the Problem

Why Focusing on Machine Learning Alone Isn’t Going to Solve the Problem

Maybe it’s time that we stop focusing on teaching just the algorithms and start incorporating lessons on data collection and curation.
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Akmel Syed
Why ‘A’ in Deep Learning Stands for the Awesome Adam Optimizer

Why ‘A’ in Deep Learning Stands for the Awesome Adam Optimizer

An easy to understand explanation of the Adam optimizer and how to code it from scratch using Python and PyTorch.
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Why RMSProp is Such a Big Deal for Adaptive Learning Rates

Why RMSProp is Such a Big Deal for Adaptive Learning Rates

An easy to follow tutorial on how to implement the famous RMSProp from scratch in Python with the help of PyTorch.
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Akmel Syed
Momentum for Deep Learning Made Easy (How-To)

Momentum for Deep Learning Made Easy (How-To)

An easy to follow tutorial to momentum for deep learning from scratch. A code first explanation using Python and PyTorch.
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Made Easy — How to Make Sense of Weight Decay

Made Easy — How to Make Sense of Weight Decay

An easy to follow guide to weight decay (aka L2 regularization). Understand how to write it from scratch with PyTorch.
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Why You Need to Stop Using Sigmoids

Why You Need to Stop Using Sigmoids

A thorough explanation of the vanishing gradient and sigmoids. Explained in code, along with ReLu and the Kaiming initalization.
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This is How to Improve an Imbalanced Dataset

This is How to Improve an Imbalanced Dataset

An easy to follow tutorial on the best way to balance an imbalanced dataset by oversampling in Python using PyTorch.
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Why You Need to Learn PyTorch’s Powerful DataLoader

Why You Need to Learn PyTorch’s Powerful DataLoader

An easy to follow tutorial introducing PyTorch’s DataLoader. Improve your deep learning. A code first approach in Python.
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An Easy and Useful Guide to Batch Gradient Descent

An Easy and Useful Guide to Batch Gradient Descent

An easy and useful guide to batch gradient descent. Improve your ML models. Understand the intuition and implement with Python and PyTorch.
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Akmel Syed
This is How to Scale Your Data for Deep Learning

This is How to Scale Your Data for Deep Learning

Easy to follow guide on how to scale your data for deep learning and neural networks in PyTorch. Standardization vs. normalization.
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