[Advanced] Data Science Reading Group

The next reading is "Using neural nets to recognize handwritten digits" http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap1.html

Please try to read it before the meetup. It's OK if you don't understand it all. The meetup is for questions and discussion.

It's a bit on the long side so please go through it and let me know if you'd like to break it up or would rather do a less detailed overview - let's aim to cover it in one meeting though unless people have strong objections (this material will be familiar to many of us I'd imagine).