At work a teammate started a reading group to read book Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow (https://goodfeli.github.io/dlbook/). Even though it is ahead of my curriculum I can’t miss the chance to read the book and discuss it with my coworkers. We are now at Chapter 8.

This book is definitely harder than what I have been studying so far, but there is one thing I am very glad for. The progress I have made with the Coursera’s ML course is directly relevant in better understanding the deep learning material. For example in the Coursera course I learned really good basics on regularization and now reading about fancy methods of regularization in the Deep Learning book it is easier to understand what’s what.

Other than that, I am behind the schedule on other things, but I still have 2 weeks left in this quarter 🙂 Now I am off for a week of holiday visiting family.

Happy Holidays!