Andreas Madsen, a freelance ML/AI engineer and Distill.pub author, joins us to discuss his work visualizing neural networks and recurrent neural units. Andreas discusses various neural unites, RNNs in general, and the “why” of neural network visualization. He also gives us his perspective on ML/AI freelancing and moving from web development to AI research.

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Featuring:

• Andreas Madsen – Twitter, GitHub
• Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Distill.pub by Andreas
• Taylor approximation and other mathematics related to neural networks

Books

• “Programming Collective Intelligence” by Toby Segaran

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