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The Matrix Calculus You Need For Deep Learning
- CardenB 9y agoFor those not familiar, Jeremy Howard (one of the two authors of this paper), is one of the founders of course.fast.ai, an excellent open course teaching machine learning geared toward software engineers and others with and without a strong academic background. I really enjoy the course and encourage those who haven't yet looked into it to try it out, so long as one has an interest in machine learning.
- delhanty 9y agoIs this essentially a dupe of the submission 10 days ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16267178 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16267178 It looks like the arXiv version of the previous submission to me ...
- dang 9y agoAh, missed that. Thanks!
- anonytrary 9y agoI will stop associating arxiv with solely research papers now. I guess they getting filled with lots of these so-called "whitepapers". I appreciate the effort of this paper, though, it seems more like an idea for a textbook. It even seems like arxiv is welcoming this what with their "Computers > Learning" breadcrumb, good to see more types of educational documents in the research realm, but I feel that teaching and research are separate for a reason.