Not the author, but I wrote an article introducing conv nets you might find helpful: http://colah.github.io/posts/2014-07-Conv-Nets-Modular/ http://colah.github

Not the author, but I wrote an article introducing conv nets you might find helpful: http://colah.github.io/posts/2014-07-Conv-Nets-Modular/ http://colah.github.io/posts/2014-07-Conv-Nets-Modular/ I also have an article on RNNs, although it's focused on explaining a special version, called an LSTM: http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-08-Understanding-LSTMs/ http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-08-Understanding-LSTMs/ If you have experience with functional programming, you might find this a nice way to think about Conv Nets/RNNs/etc: http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-09-NN-Types-FP/ http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-09-NN-Types-FP/