WTF is Deep Learning?

This month meetup regular and, for now, Googler Jeff Abrahamson (http://jeff.purple.com/qr/) will take a step back and give an overview of what deep learning actually is and where it originated.

To guarantee a place register with skillsmatter as well: https://skillsmatter.com/meetups/6465-wtf-is-deep-learning

See you there.

Dirk, Ali

WTF is Deep Learning? - Jeff Abrahamson

Neither machine learning nor deep learning are new topics, but they have both seen remarkable advancement in the last decade. As is often the case in a rapidly advancing field, new vocabulary is born.

In this talk we'll look at what we now call deep learning, its origins, and its applications. The talk strives to present the subject to a technical audience with little to no knowledge of deeplearning. As adult viewers of Saturday morning cartoons would expect,the presentation will nonetheless strive to provide some amusement and maybe enlightenment for experienced practitioners.

Bio: Jeff Abrahamson (http://jeff.purple.com/qr/) collects advanced degrees while roaming the globe doing computer science and writing software. He currently hangs his (virtual) hat at Google London, where he is called site reliability engineer. In autumn 2014 he embarks on a new chapter in his professional life based mostly in France. Want to know about the roadshows? Check out purple.com/talks (http://www.purple.com/talks/index.html).