Patrick Winston Explains Deep Learning

Just watched the first video, it&#x27;s a very nice intro to the mathematics behind neural networks, personally I like Jeremy &amp; Rachel Howards video course [1] a lot better because it is much more geared towards practical applications but if you&#x27;re into the theory end of things or if you simply want to understand better what is going on behind the scenes this video is really quite good and well worth your time.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;course.fast.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;course.fast.ai&#x2F;</a>

Patrick Winston is a great lecturer -- and it&#x27;s worth it to do the whole 6.034 course if you have the time. A lot of the topics he goes over are considered &quot;out of style&quot; now, but sometimes old-school AI algorithms find their use in new places [0]…<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.openai.com&#x2F;evolution-strategies&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.openai.com&#x2F;evolution-strategies&#x2F;</a>

It&#x27;s amazing how far we have come in the past decade. I took 6.034 with Professor Winston in Fall 2006 (and agree completely that he is an amazing teacher). I remember there being only one lecture covering Neural Networks on which was remarked that they were interesting in theory but disappointing in practice.

incredibly good teacher. In the same class as robert sedgewick at princeton.

One of the prerequisites is differential calculus, please suggest some good resources to learn from!

Great post.