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Implement a 2-layer net in NumPy and PyTorch

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Build a CNN image classifier in PyTorch

Sequence Models

Implement an LSTM text generator

Generative Models

Train a GAN on image data

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Use FP16/BF16 mixed precision training

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Reddit r/deeplearning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 6d ago

Trained a neural net to reconstruct Bad Apple in real-time.

Code: https://github.com/Pratik-3706/BadApple\\\_nn submitted by /u/Poorboi_0 [link] [comments]

AI/ML Under the Hood — Part 29: CNN Breaking News: Proximity Matters

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

AI/ML Under the Hood — Part 29: CNN Breaking News: Proximity Matters

Kernels, Feature Maps, Padding, Strides, and the Power of Proximity Continue reading on The Thoughtful Engineer »

Deep Learning Scientists — Claude Cowork: The Deep Learning Scientist’s New Lab Partner

Medium · Data Science 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

Deep Learning Scientists — Claude Cowork: The Deep Learning Scientist’s New Lab Partner

Deep learning research runs on two scarce resources: compute and attention. GPUs get more of the first every year, but a scientist’s… Continue reading on Medium

Why Qwen3.8 27B Looked Brilliant in Testing but Failed to Ship My AI Newspaper

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1w ago

Why Qwen3.8 27B Looked Brilliant in Testing but Failed to Ship My AI Newspaper

Qwen 3.8 27b on a DGX Spark: perfect on my benchmark, and it ran for twenty minutes on the real job, timed out and published nothing… Continue reading on Toward

The 91% Model: What August’s Benchmarks Reveal About the Real Cost of Staying at the Frontier

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

The 91% Model: What August’s Benchmarks Reveal About the Real Cost of Staying at the Frontier

Open-weight models didn’t just get smarter last week — they changed the math on whether the last 9% of performance is worth paying for. Continue reading on Towa

Nemotron 3.5 vs Qwen 3.6 vs Muse: I Thought Qwen Was Done. My Experiments Said Something Else.

Medium · Data Science 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

Nemotron 3.5 vs Qwen 3.6 vs Muse: I Thought Qwen Was Done. My Experiments Said Something Else.

qwen3.6, muse-glimmer and nemotron-3.5-lightning on a DGX Spark: 13 trick questions, a pressure test, and two bugs that turned out to be… Continue reading on To

Nemotron 3.5 vs Qwen 3.6 vs Muse: I Thought Qwen Was Done. My Experiments Said Something Else.

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

Nemotron 3.5 vs Qwen 3.6 vs Muse: I Thought Qwen Was Done. My Experiments Said Something Else.

qwen3.6, muse-glimmer and nemotron-3.5-lightning on a DGX Spark: 13 trick questions, a pressure test, and two bugs that turned out to be… Continue reading on To

Why Andrej Karpathy’s makemore Series is the Ultimate Deep Learning Masterclass

Medium · AI 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 2w ago

Why Andrej Karpathy’s makemore Series is the Ultimate Deep Learning Masterclass

How building bigrams, MLPs, WaveNets, and Transformers line-by-line turns black-box AI magic into pure intuition — Without doubt the best… Continue reading on T

Linear, Undercomplete and Overcomplete Autoencoders — Explained Simply

Medium · Machine Learning 🧬 Deep Learning 3w ago

Linear, Undercomplete and Overcomplete Autoencoders — Explained Simply

Have you ever wondered how a neural network can learn the important parts of an image without being directly told what those important… Continue reading on Medi

Linear, Undercomplete and Overcomplete Autoencoders — Explained Simply

Medium · Data Science 🧬 Deep Learning 3w ago

Linear, Undercomplete and Overcomplete Autoencoders — Explained Simply

Have you ever wondered how a neural network can learn the important parts of an image without being directly told what those important… Continue reading on Medi

Linear, Undercomplete and Overcomplete Autoencoders — Explained Simply

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning 3w ago

Linear, Undercomplete and Overcomplete Autoencoders — Explained Simply

Have you ever wondered how a neural network can learn the important parts of an image without being directly told what those important… Continue reading on Medi

Diffusion Models — A Thousand Tiny Problems Instead of One Impossible One

Medium · Python 🧬 Deep Learning 3w ago

Diffusion Models — A Thousand Tiny Problems Instead of One Impossible One

Algorithms in Python — Deep Learning Architectures, Part 9 Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning 3w ago

From LSTM to Generative AI: How Deep Learning for Air Quality Prediction Has Evolved

Revisiting my 2020 work on air-quality prediction and exploring what comes next Continue reading on The Startup »

Dev.to AI 🧬 Deep Learning 3w ago

40% Adam Optimizer Improvement: PyTorch Benchmarks

40% Adam Optimizer Improvement If you are training deep learning models in PyTorch, default optimizer implementations leave performance on the table. Check out

AI/ML Under the Hood — Part 24: Deep Learning Optimization Algorithms

Medium · Machine Learning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

AI/ML Under the Hood — Part 24: Deep Learning Optimization Algorithms

From Gradient Descent to Adam: Understanding Neural Network Optimization Continue reading on The Thoughtful Engineer »

AI/ML Under the Hood — Part 24: Deep Learning Optimization Algorithms

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

AI/ML Under the Hood — Part 24: Deep Learning Optimization Algorithms

From Gradient Descent to Adam: Understanding Neural Network Optimization Continue reading on The Thoughtful Engineer »

Deep Learning Tutorials Lie to You: What Nobody Tells Beginners in 2026

Medium · Data Science 🧬 Deep Learning 3w ago

Deep Learning Tutorials Lie to You: What Nobody Tells Beginners in 2026

Here is friend Link … Continue reading on Medium »

Train Neural Networks without Draining your Pocket: Mixed Precision and Pixel Precision in Native…

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

Train Neural Networks without Draining your Pocket: Mixed Precision and Pixel Precision in Native…

Learn how to train your model faster with Mixed precision and Pixel precision using PyTorch. Complicated than Lightning but comes with… Continue reading on Medi

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 3w ago

Beyond Attention: Spectron

A Mathematical Framework for Next-Generation AI Continue reading on Medium »

Optimizers in Deep Learning: From Gradient Descent to Adam:

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago

Optimizers in Deep Learning: From Gradient Descent to Adam:

Have you ever wondered how Artificial Neural Networks learn from their mistakes? Continue reading on Medium »

ArXiv cs.AI 🧬 Deep Learning 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago

Deep Learning CNN and Recurrence Analysis for Alpha Gamma EEG Biomarkers in Fragile X Syndrome

arXiv:2608.00835v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by reduced expression of fragile X mental ret

☁️ Yerel Makineden Buluta: Araç Değerleme ve Hasar Tespit Modellerini Nasıl Ölçeklendirdim?

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 4w ago

☁️ Yerel Makineden Buluta: Araç Değerleme ve Hasar Tespit Modellerini Nasıl Ölçeklendirdim?

Yazılım geliştirme ve makine öğrenimi disiplinlerini harmanlayan, uçtan uca çözümler üretmeye odaklı bir mühendis adayı olarak verinin… Continue reading on Medi

Inkling-Small — Strong Performance at a Quarter of the Size of Inkling

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Inkling-Small — Strong Performance at a Quarter of the Size of Inkling

On July 30th, Thinking Machines released Inkling-Small. It is an open-weight model that achieves comparable performance to Inkling at a… Continue reading on MLW

Day 1 of trying to get back to studying: (Subject of choice: Neural Networks)

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Day 1 of trying to get back to studying: (Subject of choice: Neural Networks)

I decided I will try to learn neural networks from scratch. Continue reading on Medium »

Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU): A Simpler Alternative to LSTM

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning 1mo ago

Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU): A Simpler Alternative to LSTM

Hello everyone  Continue reading on Medium »

I Turned Pop Songs Into Classical Music With AI

Medium · Machine Learning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

I Turned Pop Songs Into Classical Music With AI

No PyTorch, no GPU — just NumPy and a conditional autoencoder Continue reading on Medium »

I Turned Pop Songs Into Classical Music With AI

Medium · Python 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

I Turned Pop Songs Into Classical Music With AI

No PyTorch, no GPU — just NumPy and a conditional autoencoder Continue reading on Medium »

I Turned Pop Songs Into Classical Music With AI

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

I Turned Pop Songs Into Classical Music With AI

No PyTorch, no GPU — just NumPy and a conditional autoencoder Continue reading on Medium »

How I Implemented NeRF From Scratch

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

How I Implemented NeRF From Scratch

I spent weeks implementing NeRF from scratch, documenting every breakthrough, mistake, and lesson along the way. Continue reading on Medium »

Deep Learning Essentials — (7) Variational Autoencoder

Medium · Python 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Deep Learning Essentials — (7) Variational Autoencoder

Deep Learning Foundations, Models for Images and Sequences, and Generative AI Continue reading on Medium »

How Deep Learning Is Reshaping Early Cardiovascular Risk Assessment

Hackernoon 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

How Deep Learning Is Reshaping Early Cardiovascular Risk Assessment

Discover how deep learning, predictive analytics, and hybrid CNN-GRU models are improving early cardiovascular risk assessment through AI-driven healthcare.

LSTM vs RNN: Understanding the Differences Through Simple Examples

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning 1mo ago

LSTM vs RNN: Understanding the Differences Through Simple Examples

Hello everyone  Continue reading on Medium »

Deep Learning 101: Everything You Need to Know Before Your Next Interview

Medium · Data Science 🧬 Deep Learning 1mo ago

Deep Learning 101: Everything You Need to Know Before Your Next Interview

Introduction Continue reading on Medium »

Natural Language Processing

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Natural Language Processing

From Text to Sequence Models — — RNN, LSTM & GRU Continue reading on Medium »

Master TensorFlow and PyTorch : Advanced Machine Learning Course & Deep Learning in Telugu

Medium · Machine Learning 🧬 Deep Learning 1mo ago

Master TensorFlow and PyTorch : Advanced Machine Learning Course & Deep Learning in Telugu

Introduction Continue reading on Medium »

Master TensorFlow and PyTorch : Advanced Machine Learning Course & Deep Learning in Telugu

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning 1mo ago

Master TensorFlow and PyTorch : Advanced Machine Learning Course & Deep Learning in Telugu

Introduction Continue reading on Medium »

Deep Learning in Generative AI: From Fundamentals to Cutting-Edge Applications

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Deep Learning in Generative AI: From Fundamentals to Cutting-Edge Applications

Artificial Intelligence has entered a new era where machines are no longer limited to analyzing information — they can now create it. This… Continue reading on

Reddit r/deeplearning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Implemented the Original NST Paper from Scratch – Feedback Welcome

Hey everyone, I recently implemented the original Neural Style Transfer (NST) paper entirely from scratch in PyTorch and tried to reproduce the original results

Master Modern AI: Complete Guide to IEEE Deep Learning Projects for Engineering Students

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Master Modern AI: Complete Guide to IEEE Deep Learning Projects for Engineering Students

As artificial intelligence continues to redefine global technology landscapes, hands-on exposure to advanced neural architectures has… Continue reading on Mediu

Generating Realistic Mars Images Using DCGAN: A Deep Learning Guide

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Generating Realistic Mars Images Using DCGAN: A Deep Learning Guide

Learn how Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks (DCGANs) can generate realistic images of Mars by learning directly from real… Continue reading on

A Beginner’s Guide to Deep Learning Libraries in Python

Medium · Python 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

A Beginner’s Guide to Deep Learning Libraries in Python

Choosing the right deep learning library in Python is one of the first real decisions you’ll make as you move from tutorials into projects… Continue reading on

A Beginner’s Guide to Deep Learning Libraries in Python

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

A Beginner’s Guide to Deep Learning Libraries in Python

Choosing the right deep learning library in Python is one of the first real decisions you’ll make as you move from tutorials into projects… Continue reading on

Deep Learning Bootcamp and Essentials

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Deep Learning Bootcamp and Essentials

1. Foundations of Deep Learning Continue reading on Medium »

Dev.to AI 🧬 Deep Learning 1mo ago

Conditional Flow Variational Autoencoders for Structured Sequence Prediction

R5 — Time is the fifth register

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

R5 — Time is the fifth register

Four registers was almost right. Look at what the system actually manages in every documented case and a fifth appears: time itself — the… Continue reading on M

Why Scale-Up Is Where Most Deep Tech Dies

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Why Scale-Up Is Where Most Deep Tech Dies

A technology rarely fails because it doesn’t work. More often, it fails because it only works under conditions the real world cannot… Continue reading on Medium

The Operator Assumed a Grid

Medium · Deep Learning 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

The Operator Assumed a Grid

Six Changes That Made DeepONet Work on Irregular GNSS Slant TEC — Kernel-Reconstructed Inputs, Sobol Sensors, Gated Fusion, and a… Continue reading on Medium »

Building Your Own Deep Learning Framework: A 3–5 Month Journey From Zero to Tiny Transformer

Dev.to · Biki Kalita 🧬 Deep Learning ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago

Building Your Own Deep Learning Framework: A 3–5 Month Journey From Zero to Tiny Transformer

Prologue: The Machine That Learns to Learn Somewhere in a research lab in the early 2010s,...