Taming The Deep Learning Beast: Hands-On With PyTorch

This is the June monthly meeting. Normally some of us go on to the pub afterwards.

Sam Ringer, who is a Machine Learning Engineer at Speechmatics (http://www.speechmatics.com/) will lead a workshop:

Together, we will build and train an image classifier using the Deep Learning framework PyTorch.

The overall aim of the session will be for those attending to leave with a decent understanding of what 'training a model' actually means in the context of machine learning.

PyTorch combines the power of the most advanced deep learning frameworks with an intuitive Pythonic API that makes writing machine learning code a pleasure and not a pain.

An entry level understanding of the key moving parts of deep learning is desired but not essential.

Please come prepared with a laptop and Google account.

Speechmatics will also be providing pizza.

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