This book is written for two kinds of readers. The first type of reader is one
who plans to study Deep Learning in a systematic approach for further research
and development. This reader should read all the content from the beginning to
end. The example code will be especially helpful for further understanding the
concepts. A good deal of effort has been made to construct adequate examples
and implement them. The code examples are constructed to be easy to
read and understand. They are written in MATLAB for better legibility. There
is no better programming language than MATLAB at being able to handle the
matrices of Deep Learning in a simple and intuitive manner. The example code
uses only basic functions and grammar, so that even those who are not familiar
with MATLAB can easily understand the concepts. For those who are familiar
with programming, the example code may be easier to understand than the text
of this book.
The other kind of reader is one who wants more in-depth information about
Deep Learning than what can be obtained from magazines or newspapers,
yet doesn’t want to study formally. These readers can skip the example
code and briefly go over the explanations of the concepts. Such readers may
especially want to skip the learning rules of the neural network.
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