This is a timely post for me because I also want to study deep learning and have been researching the best way to do that without going back to school and getting a graduate degree in CS.
My tentative plan is to start with Coursera's Neural Network course and implement as many things as possible (probably in Python) along the way. By the end of 2015, I'd like to build a deep learning application from scratch that does something interesting.
While online resources will likely be my primary source of information, I'd love to have a study partner (or partners) to discuss concepts and bounce ideas off of. If OP or anyone else is interested, drop me a note at matthew.h.mazur@gmail.com and we'll figure out the best way to do that.
As a side note, I built a few a-life/AI visualizations in JavaScript over the past year, including a simple neural network which might interest anyone reading this: http://www.emergentmind.com/.
My tentative plan is to start with Coursera's Neural Network course and implement as many things as possible (probably in Python) along the way. By the end of 2015, I'd like to build a deep learning application from scratch that does something interesting.
While online resources will likely be my primary source of information, I'd love to have a study partner (or partners) to discuss concepts and bounce ideas off of. If OP or anyone else is interested, drop me a note at matthew.h.mazur@gmail.com and we'll figure out the best way to do that.
As a side note, I built a few a-life/AI visualizations in JavaScript over the past year, including a simple neural network which might interest anyone reading this: http://www.emergentmind.com/.