You're reading from Python Machine Learning, Second Edition Machine Learning and Deep Learning with Python, scikit-learn, and TensorFlow

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787125933

Length 622 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Scikit-learn

Concepts

Deep Learning

Authors (2):

Vahid Mirjalili

Sebastian Raschka

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Giving Computers the Ability to Learn from Data FREE CHAPTER

2. Training Simple Machine Learning Algorithms for Classification

3. A Tour of Machine Learning Classifiers Using scikit-learn

4. Building Good Training Sets – Data Preprocessing

5. Compressing Data via Dimensionality Reduction

6. Learning Best Practices for Model Evaluation and Hyperparameter Tuning

7. Combining Different Models for Ensemble Learning

8. Applying Machine Learning to Sentiment Analysis

9. Embedding a Machine Learning Model into a Web Application

10. Predicting Continuous Target Variables with Regression Analysis

11. Working with Unlabeled Data – Clustering Analysis

12. Implementing a Multilayer Artificial Neural Network from Scratch

13. Parallelizing Neural Network Training with TensorFlow

14. Going Deeper – The Mechanics of TensorFlow

15. Classifying Images with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

16. Modeling Sequential Data Using Recurrent Neural Networks

Index

Artificial neurons – a brief glimpse into the early history of machine learning

Before we discuss the perceptron and related algorithms in more detail, let us take a brief tour through the early beginnings of machine learning. Trying to understand how the biological brain works, in order to design AI, Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts published the first concept of a simplified brain cell, the so-called McCulloch-Pitts (MCP) neuron, in 1943 (A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity, W. S. McCulloch and W. Pitts, Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, 5(4): 115-133, 1943). Neurons are interconnected nerve cells in the brain that are involved in the processing and transmitting of chemical and electrical signals, which is illustrated in the following figure:

McCulloch and Pitts described such a nerve cell as a simple logic gate with binary outputs; multiple signals arrive at the dendrites, are then integrated into the cell body, and, if the accumulated signal exceeds...