A Geometric Proof of the Perceptron Convergence Theorem
The last time I studied neural networks in detail was five years ago in college. I did touch upon backpropagation when Andrew Ng’s machine learning MOOC was offered on Coursera for the first time, but beyond that I’ve only dabbled with them through keras. Then recently, when I read about Coursera’s imminent decision to pull down much of their freely available material (you can read a rant about it here), I went on a downloading spree (many thanks to the wonderful coursera-dl). Of all the courses I downloaded, the one that caught my eye was Geoffrey Hinton’s course on Neural Networks for Machine Learning. Because of that and the fact that there were some computer vision projects going on at work, I decided to dive right in.