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title: "Welcome to *Grokking Deep Learning"
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# **Welcome to** *Grokking Deep Learning*

This resource provides an accessible introduction to deep learning, covering its fundamental concepts and practical applications in artificial intelligence and automation. It emphasizes understanding the underlying mechanisms of neural networks rather than merely using existing software frameworks, employing intuitive analogies and a project-based approach to make complex topics comprehensible for readers without advanced mathematical backgrounds. The content enables learners to build and understand intelligent systems, preparing them for an evolving technological landscape.

This page is free — overview and chapter list only.
Full book: $2.99 USDC · Per chapter: $0.25 USDC
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## Chapters

1. [In This Chapter](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/01-in-this-chapter/) (Free teaser)
1. [Welcome To Grokking Deep Learning](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/02-welcome-to-grokking-deep-learning/) ($0.25)
1. [Why You Should Learn Deep Learning](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/03-why-you-should-learn-deep-learning/) ($0.25)
1. [Will This Be Difficult To Learn](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/04-will-this-be-difficult-to-learn/) ($0.25)
1. [Why You Should Read This Book](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/05-why-you-should-read-this-book/) ($0.25)
1. [What You Need To Get Started](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/06-what-you-need-to-get-started/) ($0.25)
1. [Youll Probably Need Some Python Knowledge](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/07-youll-probably-need-some-python-knowledge/) ($0.25)
1. [Summary](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/08-summary/) ($0.25)
1. [In This Chapter 2](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/09-in-this-chapter-2/) ($0.25)
1. [What Is Deep Learning](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/10-what-is-deep-learning/) ($0.25)
1. [Supervised Machine Learning](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/11-supervised-machine-learning/) ($0.25)
1. [Unsupervised Machine Learning](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/12-unsupervised-machine-learning/) ($0.25)
1. [Parametric Vs Nonparametric Learning](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/13-parametric-vs-nonparametric-learning/) ($0.25)
1. [Supervised Parametric Learning](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/14-supervised-parametric-learning/) ($0.25)
1. [Unsupervised Parametric Learning](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/15-unsupervised-parametric-learning/) ($0.25)
1. [Nonparametric Learning](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/16-nonparametric-learning/) ($0.25)
1. [Summary 2](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/17-summary-2/) ($0.25)
1. [In This Chapter 3](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/18-in-this-chapter-3/) ($0.25)
1. [Step 1 Predict](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/19-step-1-predict/) ($0.25)
1. [What Is A Neural Network](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/20-what-is-a-neural-network/) ($0.25)
1. [What Does This Neural Network Do](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/21-what-does-this-neural-network-do/) ($0.25)
1. [Making A Prediction With Multiple Inputs](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/22-making-a-prediction-with-multiple-inputs/) ($0.25)
1. [Multiple Inputs What Does This Neural Network Do](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/23-multiple-inputs-what-does-this-neural-network-do/) ($0.25)
1. [Multiple Inputs Complete Runnable Code](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/24-multiple-inputs-complete-runnable-code/) ($0.25)
1. [Making A Prediction With Multiple Outputs](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/25-making-a-prediction-with-multiple-outputs/) ($0.25)
1. [Predicting With Multiple Inputs And Outputs](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/26-predicting-with-multiple-inputs-and-outputs/) ($0.25)
1. [Multiple Inputs And Outputs How Does It Work](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/27-multiple-inputs-and-outputs-how-does-it-work/) ($0.25)
1. [Predicting On Predictions](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/28-predicting-on-predictions/) ($0.25)
1. [A Quick Primer On Numpy](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/29-a-quick-primer-on-numpy/) ($0.25)
1. [Summary 3](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/30-summary-3/) ($0.25)
1. [In This Chapter 4](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/31-in-this-chapter-4/) ($0.25)
1. [Predict Compare And Learn](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/32-predict-compare-and-learn/) ($0.25)
1. [Compare](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/33-compare/) ($0.25)
1. [Learn](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/34-learn/) ($0.25)
1. [Compare Does Your Network Make Good Predictions](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/35-compare-does-your-network-make-good-predictions/) ($0.25)
1. [Why Measure Error](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/36-why-measure-error/) ($0.25)
1. [Whats The Simplest Form Of Neural Learning](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/37-whats-the-simplest-form-of-neural-learning/) ($0.25)
1. [Hot And Cold Learning](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/38-hot-and-cold-learning/) ($0.25)
1. [Characteristics Of Hot And Cold Learning](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/39-characteristics-of-hot-and-cold-learning/) ($0.25)
1. [Calculating Both Direction And Amount From Error](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/40-calculating-both-direction-and-amount-from-error/) ($0.25)
1. [One Iteration Of Gradient Descent](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/41-one-iteration-of-gradient-descent/) ($0.25)
1. [Learning Is Just Reducing Error](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/42-learning-is-just-reducing-error/) ($0.25)
1. [Code Output](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/43-code-output/) ($0.25)
1. [Linking The Variables](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/44-linking-the-variables/) ($0.25)
1. [Everything Side By Side](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/45-everything-side-by-side/) ($0.25)
1. [The Importance Of Visualization Tools](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/46-the-importance-of-visualization-tools/) ($0.25)
1. [Well That Was Easy](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/47-well-that-was-easy/) ($0.25)
1. [Memorization Vs Generalization](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/48-memorization-vs-generalization/) ($0.25)
1. [A Simple Implementation In Numpy](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/49-a-simple-implementation-in-numpy/) ($0.25)
1. [Summary 4](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/50-summary-4/) ($0.25)
1. [What Does It Mean To Understand Language](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/51-what-does-it-mean-to-understand-language/) ($0.25)
1. [Natural Language Processing Nlp](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/52-natural-language-processing-nlp/) ($0.25)
1. [Supervised Nlp](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/53-supervised-nlp/) ($0.25)
1. [Imdb Movie Reviews Dataset](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/54-imdb-movie-reviews-dataset/) ($0.25)
1. [Capturing Word Correlation In Input Data](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/55-capturing-word-correlation-in-input-data/) ($0.25)
1. [Predicting Movie Reviews](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/56-predicting-movie-reviews/) ($0.25)
1. [Intro To An Embedding Layer](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/57-intro-to-an-embedding-layer/) ($0.25)
1. [Interpreting The Output](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/58-interpreting-the-output/) ($0.25)
1. [Neural Architecture](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/59-neural-architecture/) ($0.25)
1. [Comparing Word Embeddings](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/60-comparing-word-embeddings/) ($0.25)
1. [What Is The Meaning Of A Neuron](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/61-what-is-the-meaning-of-a-neuron/) ($0.25)
1. [Filling In The Blank](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/62-filling-in-the-blank/) ($0.25)
1. [Meaning Is Derived From Loss](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/63-meaning-is-derived-from-loss/) ($0.25)
1. [King Man Woman Queen](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/64-king-man-woman-queen/) ($0.25)
1. [Word Analogies](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/65-word-analogies/) ($0.25)
1. [Summary 5](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/66-summary-5/) ($0.25)
1. [In This Chapter 5](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/67-in-this-chapter-5/) ($0.25)
1. [The Challenge Of Arbitrary Length](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/68-the-challenge-of-arbitrary-length/) ($0.25)
1. [Do Comparisons Really Matter](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/69-do-comparisons-really-matter/) ($0.25)
1. [The Surprising Power Of Averaged Word Vectors](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/70-the-surprising-power-of-averaged-word-vectors/) ($0.25)
1. [How Is Information Stored In These Embeddings](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/71-how-is-information-stored-in-these-embeddings/) ($0.25)
1. [How Does A Neural Network Use Embeddings](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/72-how-does-a-neural-network-use-embeddings/) ($0.25)
1. [The Limitations Of Bag Of Words Vectors](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/73-the-limitations-of-bag-of-words-vectors/) ($0.25)
1. [Using Identity Vectors To Sum Word Embeddings](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/74-using-identity-vectors-to-sum-word-embeddings/) ($0.25)
1. [Matrices That Change Absolutely Nothing](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/75-matrices-that-change-absolutely-nothing/) ($0.25)
1. [Learning The Transition Matrices](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/76-learning-the-transition-matrices/) ($0.25)
1. [Learning To Create Useful Sentence Vectors](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/77-learning-to-create-useful-sentence-vectors/) ($0.25)
1. [Forward Propagation In Python](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/78-forward-propagation-in-python/) ($0.25)
1. [Deep Learning With Pythonhttpswwwmanningcombooksdeep Learnin](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/79-deep-learning-with-pythonhttpswwwmanningcombooksdeep-learnin/) ($0.25)
1. [Natural Language Processinghttpswwwmanningcombooksnatural La](/library/grokkingdeeplearning/80-natural-language-processinghttpswwwmanningcombooksnatural-la/) ($0.25)