An Introduction to Deep Learning
An Introduction to Deep Learning During recent years, deep learning has become somewhat of a buzzword in the tech community. We always seem to hear about it in news regarding AI, and yet most people don’t actually know what it is! In this article, I’ll be demystifying the buzzword that is deep learning, and providing an intuition of how it works. Building the Intuition Generally speaking, deep learning is a machine learning method that takes in an input X, and uses it to predict an output of Y. As an example, given the stock prices of the past week as input, my deep learning algorithm will try to predict the stock price of the next day. Given a large dataset of input and output pairs, a deep learning algorithm will try to minimize the difference between its prediction and expected output. By doing this, it tries to learn the association/pattern between given inputs and outputs — this in turn allows a deep learning model to generalize to inputs that it hasn’t seen before. As another e