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With an IQ of just 125 and a BS in CS, I've struggled with this CS224d class. I've gotten half-way twice realizing that I don't know enough to learn more. I t

With an IQ of just 125 and a BS in CS, I've struggled with this CS224d class. I've gotten half-way twice realizing that I don't know enough to learn more. I told myself, "Just keep going through the course and you'll eventually get it." This still isn't the case. I'll have to finish the videos and see what happens next. I get the general idea, but I definitely couldn't implement an artificial neural network after having just watched the videos. Perhaps reading the suggested readings would make a big difference. Seriously, though. When I look at assignment 1, I don't even know what I'm supposed to do.

neel8986 11y ago
Some background in Linear Algebra and calculus will be really helpful. If you want to implement backprop from scratch just look at the segment around https://youtu.be/I2TfdXfSOfc?list=PL05WXsDr_SWRGcuy5LA5eNjCq1JgcXYM1&t=4168 https://youtu.be/I2TfdXfSOfc?list=PL05WXsDr_SWRGcuy5LA5eNjCq... He explained really well how you can automatically get the derivation without going through painful calculation. Also i will suggest you to stick to the class as second half contains less maths and more fun techniques kind of like lego blocks :) if you just want use neural net in production I highly recommend using something like theano/ keras