deep learning has taken the world by surprise, driving rapid progress in fields
as diverse as computer vision, natural language processing, automatic speech recognition, reinforcement
learning, and statistical modeling. With these advances in hand, we can now build cars that drive themselves (with increasing autonomy), smart reply systems that anticipate mundane replies, helping people
dig out from mountains of email, and software agents that dominate the world’s best humans at board
games like Go, a feat once deemed to be decades away. Already, these tools are exerting a widening
impact, changing the way movies are made, diseases are diagnosed, and playing a growing role in basic sciences – from astrophysics to biology. This book represents our attempt to make deep learning
approachable, teaching you both the concepts, the context, and the code.
