Training NN for Prediction Using Regression

Welcome to our first proper project in Python deep learning! What we'll be doing today is building a classifier to solve the problem of identifying specific handwriting samples from a dataset of images. We've been asked (in this hypothetical use case) to do this by a restaurant chain that has the need to accurately classify handwritten numbers into digits. What they have their customers do is write their phone numbers in a simple iPad application. At the time when they can be seated, the guest will get a text prompting them to come and see the restaurant's host. We need to accurately classify the handwritten numbers, so that the output from the app will be accurately predicted labels for the digits of a phone number. This can then be sent to their (hypothetical) auto dialer service for text messages, and the notice gets...