The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning
- Length: 440 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- Publication Date: 2023-02-21
- ISBN-10: 026254637X
- ISBN-13: 9780262546379
- Sales Rank: #7575 (See Top 100 Books)
A highly accessible, step-by-step introduction to deep learning, written in an engaging, question-and-answer style.
The Little Learner introduces deep learning from the bottom up, inviting students to learn by doing. With the characteristic humor and Socratic approach of classroom favorites The Little Schemer and The Little Typer, this kindred text explains the workings of deep neural networks by constructing them incrementally from first principles using little programs that build on one another. Starting from scratch, the reader is led through a complete implementation of a substantial application: a recognizer for noisy Morse code signals. Example-driven and highly accessible, The Little Learner covers all of the concepts necessary to develop an intuitive understanding of the workings of deep neural networks, including tensors, extended operators, gradient descent algorithms, artificial neurons, dense networks, convolutional networks, residual networks, and automatic differentiation.
- Conversational style, illustrations, and question-and-answer format make deep learning accessible and fun
- Incremental approach constructs advanced concepts from first principles
- Presents key ideas of machine learning using a small, manageable subset of the Scheme language
- Suitable for anyone with knowledge of high school math and some programming experience
Cover Contents Foreword by Guy L. Steele Jr. Foreword by Peter Norvig Preface Transcribing to Scheme 0: Are You Schemish? 1: The Lines Sleep Tonight 2: The More We Learn, the Tenser We Become Interlude I: The More We Extend, the Less Tensor We Get 3: Running Down a Slippery Slope 4: Slip-slidin’ Away Interlude II: Too Many Toys Make Us Hyperactive 5: Target Practice Interlude III: The Shape of Things to Come 6: An Apple a Day 7: The Crazy “ates” 8: The Nearer Your Destination, the Slower You Become Interlude IV: Smooth Operator 9: Be Adamant Interlude V: Extensio Magnifico! 10: Doing the Neuron Dance 11: In Love with the Shape of Relu 12: Rock Around the Block 13: An Eye for an Iris Interlude VI: How the Model Trains Interlude VII: Are Your Signals Crossed? 14: It's Really Not That Convoluted 15: …But It Is Correlated! Epilogue - We've Only Just Begun Appendix A: Ghost in the Machine Appendix B: I Could Have Raced All Day Acknowledgments References Index
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