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CS231n Winter 2016: Lecture1: Introduction and Historical Context

The first lecture of Stanford's CS231n Winter 2016 course on convolutional neural networks for visual recognition, introducing the course and the historical context of computer vision.

Why HN readers recommended it

HN lists it as a free, brilliant introduction to deep learning and computer vision, often within ML self-study plans.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Andrej Karpathy
Topic
convolutional neural networks
Format
course
Level
intro
HN recommenders in dataset
2
HN mentions in dataset
4
Recommendation years in dataset
2016–2023

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  • This is kind of a masters degree course i created for myself to get knowledge of Machine Learning from bottoms up First, you need a strong mathematical base. Otherwise, you can copy paste an algorithm or use an API but you will not get any …

    neel8986 on Hacker News · 2018-01
    In Ask HN: How to Seriously Start with Machine Learning and AI
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    igravious on Hacker News · 2018-01
    In Ask HN: Best introductory video courses on ML and Deep Learning?

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