Abstract: 

We will build and tweak several vision classifiers together starting with perceptrons and building up to transfer learning and convolutional neural networks. We will investigate practical implications of tweaking loss functions, gradient descent algorithms, network architectures, data normalization, data augmentation and so on. This class is super hands on and practical and requires no math or experience with deep learning.

Bio: 

Chris Van Pelt is a co-founder of Weights and Biases which builds performance and visualization tools for machine learning teams and practitioners. Chris also founded Figure Eight (formerly CrowdFlower) — a human in the loop platform transforms unstructured text, image, audio, and video data into customized high quality training data. — which he co-founded in December 2007 with Lukas Biewald.