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Transformation Pipelines 66
Select and Train a Model 68
Training and Evaluating on the Training Set 68
Better Evaluation Using Cross-Validation 69
Exercises 165
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Appendix A.
Thank You!
Before we close the last chapter of this book, I would like to thank you for reading it
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as I had writing it, and that it will be useful for your projects, big or small.
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Distributing a Deep RNN Across Multiple GPUs 397
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9. Semantic hashing, introduced in 2008 by Ruslan Salakh utdinov and Geoffrey
Hinton,13 is a technique used for efficient information retrieval: a document (e.g.,
an image) is passed through a system, typically a neural network, which outputs a
fairly low-dimensional binary vector (e.g., 30 bits). Two similar documents are
likely to have identical or very similar hashes. By indexing each document using
its hash, it is possible to retrieve many documents similar to a particular docu‐
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Appendix A.
Thank You!
Before we close the last chapter of this book, I would like to thank you for reading it
up to the last paragraph. I truly hope that you had as much pleasure reading this book
as I had writing it, and that it will be useful for your projects, big or small.
If you find errors, please send feedback. More generally, I would love to know what
you think, so please don’t hesitate to contact me via O’Reilly, or through the ageron/
handson-ml GitHub project.
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scientist should know by heart. It will be a high-level overview (the only chapter
without much code), all rather simple, but you should make sure everything is
crystal-clear to you before continuing to the rest of the book. So grab a coffee and let’s
get started!
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Jupyter notebook.
And of course, a gigantic “thank you” to my dear brother Sylvain, who reviewed every
single chapter, tested every line of code, provided feedback on virtually every section,
and encouraged me from the first line to the last. Love you, bro!
Many thanks as well to O’Reilly’s fantastic staff, in particular Nicole Tache, who gave
me insightful feedback, always cheerful, encouraging, and helpful. Thanks as well to
Appendix A.
Thank You!
Before we close the last chapter of this book, I would like to thank you for reading it
up to the last paragraph. I truly hope that you had as much pleasure reading this book
as I had writing it, and that it will be useful for your projects, big or small.
If you find errors, please send feedback. More generally, I would love to know what
you think, so please don’t hesitate to contact me via O’Reilly, or through the ageron/
handson-ml GitHub project.
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Q: show the summary
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The context provided discusses how to create summaries in TensorFlow for TensorBoard visualization, but it doesn't contain the actual summary output or data to show you. The context only explains the code used to create summaries:
- `tf.summary.scalar('MSE', mse)` - creates a node to write MSE values
- `tf.summary.FileWriter()` - creates a FileWriter to write summaries to log files
To see a summary, you would need to execute the TensorFlow code and view the results in TensorBoard or retrieve the logged data from the specified log directory.
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4. Don’t forget to present interesting points you noticed along the way.
• Describe what worked and what did not.
• List your assumptions and your system’s limitations.
5. Ensure your key findings are communicated through beautiful visualizations or
easy-to-remember statements (e.g., “
the median income is the number-one pre‐
dictor of housing prices”).
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notebook itself. Note that calling show() is optional in a Jupyter
notebook, as Jupyter will automatically display plots when a cell is
executed.
Notice a few things in these histograms:
1. First, the median income attribute does not look like it is expressed in US dollars
(USD). After checking with the team tha t collected the data, you are told tha
t the
data has been scaled and capped at 15 (actually 15.0001) for higher median
mse_summary = tf.summary.scalar('MSE', mse)
file_writer = tf.summary.FileWriter(logdir, tf.get_default_graph())
The first line creates a node in the graph that will evaluate the MSE value and write it
to a TensorBoard-compatible binary log string called a summary. The second line cre‐
ates a FileWriter that you will use to write summaries to logfiles in the log directory.
The first parameter indicates the path of the log directory (in this case something like
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Q: whatsapp
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AlexNet 367
GoogLeNet 368
ResNet 372
GoogLeNet
The GoogLeNet architecture was developed by Christian Szegedy et al. from Google
Research,10 and it won the ILSVRC 2014 challenge by pushing the top-5 error rate
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11 In the 2010 movie Inc eption, the characters keep going deeper and deeper into multiple layers of dreams,
hence the name of these modules.
below 7%. This great performance came in large part from the fact that the network
and get their outputs across a variety of platforms and languages. 3 It is based on
HTTP2, which opens a connection and leaves it open during the whole session,
allowing efficient bidirectional communication once the connection is established.
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Data is transmitted in the form of p ro tocol buffers, another open source Google tech‐
nology. This is a ligh
tweight binary data interchange format.
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Q: What is support email?
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The context provided discusses machine learning concepts related to spam filtering, training sets, and email processing techniques, but it does not contain any information about what "support email" is.
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Moreover, if spammers notice that all their emails containing “4U” are blocked, they
might start writing “F or U” instead. A spam filter using traditional programming
techniques would need to be upda
ted to flag “For U” emails. If spammers keep work‐
ing around your spam filter, you will need to keep writing new rules forever.
In contrast, a spam filter based on Machine Learning techniques automatically noti‐
called the training set. Each training example is called a training instance (or sample).
In this case, the task T is to flag spam for new emails, the experience E is the training
data, and the performance measure P needs to be defined; for example, you can use
the ratio of correctly classified emails. This particular performance measure is called
accuracy and it is often used in classification tasks.
If you just download a copy of Wikipedia, your computer has a lot more data, but it is
emails only ever contain four words, “Hello, ” “how, ” “are, ” “you, ” then the email
“Hello you Hello Hello you” would be converted into a vector [1, 0, 0, 1]
(meaning [“Hello” is present, “how” is absent, “are” is absent, “you” is
present]), or [3, 0, 0, 2] if you prefer to count the number of occurrences of
each word.
• Y ou may want to add hyperparameters to your preparation pipeline to control
whether or not to strip off email headers, convert each email to lowercase,
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Q: What is Python used for?
Based on the context provided, Python is used as a programming language for machine learning and deep learning frameworks. Specifically, the context shows that Python is supported by several Library API Platforms including:
- Caffe
- Deeplearning4j
- H2O
- MXNet
- TensorFlow
- Theano
The context also mentions that Python frameworks like Scikit-Learn are used for implementing machine learning algorithms, and that TensorFlow's Python API represents tensors as NumPy ndarrays for performing computations.
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ment programs capable of learning from data.
We will cover a large number of techniques, from the simplest and most commonly
used (such as linear regression) to some of the Deep Learning techniques that regu‐
larly win competitions.
Rather than implementing our own toy versions of each algorithm, we will be using
actual production-ready Python frameworks:
• Scikit-Learn is ver y easy to use, yet it im plemen
ts many Machine Learning algo‐
Library API Platforms Started by Year
Caffe Python, C++, Matlab Linux, macOS, Windows Y. Jia, UC Berkeley (BVLC) 2013
Deeplearning4j Java, Scala, Clojure Linux, macOS, Windows, Android A. Gibson, J.Patterson 2014
H2O Python, R Linux, macOS, Windows H2O.ai 2014
MXNet Python, C++, others Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android DMLC 2015
TensorFlow Python, C++ Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android Google 2015
Theano Python Linux, macOS, iOS University of Montreal 2010
called tensors (hence the name “tensor flow”). Just like NumPy arrays, tensors have a
type and a shape. In fact, in the Python API tensors are simply represented by NumPy
ndarrays. They typically contain floats, but you can also use them to carry strings
(arbitrary byte arrays).
In the examples so far, the tensors just contained a single scalar value, but you can of
course perform computations on arrays of any shape. For example, the following code
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Q: What web frameworks are mentioned?
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title, author, publisher, and ISBN. For example: “Hands-On Machine Learning with
Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow by Aurélien Géron (O’Reilly). Copyright 2017 Aurélien
Géron, 978-1-491-96229-9. ”
If you feel your use of code examples falls outside fair use or the permission given
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Library API Platforms Started by Year
Caffe Python, C++, Matlab Linux, macOS, Windows Y. Jia, UC Berkeley (BVLC) 2013
Deeplearning4j Java, Scala, Clojure Linux, macOS, Windows, Android A. Gibson, J.Patterson 2014
H2O Python, R Linux, macOS, Windows H2O.ai 2014
MXNet Python, C++, others Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android DMLC 2015
TensorFlow Python, C++ Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android Google 2015
Theano Python Linux, macOS, iOS University of Montreal 2010
TensorFlow’s clean design, scalability, flexibility, 1 and great documentation (not to
mention Google’s name) quickly boosted it to the top of the list. In short, TensorFlow
was designed to be flexible, scalable, and production-ready, and existing frameworks
arguably hit only two out of the three of these. Here are some of TensorFlow’s high‐
lights:
• It runs not only on Windows, Linux, and macOS, but also on mobile devices,
including both iOS and Android.
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Q: Who created Python and when?
I don't have enough information to answer that.
The context provided contains information about machine learning library API platforms and their creators, as well as instructions for installing Python tools, but it does not include information about who created Python or when Python was originally created.
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directory (containing only the env directory if you followed the preceding virtualenv
instructions).
Now create a new Python notebook by clicking on the New button and selecting the
appropriate Python version10 (see Figure 2-3).
This does three things: first, it creates a new notebook file called Untitled.ipynb in
your workspace; second, it starts a Jupyter Python kernel to run this notebook; and
third, it opens this notebook in a new tab. Y ou should start by renaming this note‐
9 Y
ou may need to have administrator rights to run this command; if so, try prefixing it with sudo.
macOS), install a Scientific Python distribution such as Anaconda and use its packag‐
ing system, or just use Python ’ s own packaging system, pip
, which is included by
default with the Python binary installers (since Python 2.7.9). 8 Y ou can check to see if
pip is installed by typing the following command:
$ pip3 --version
pip 9.0.1 from [...]/lib/python3.5/site-packages (python 3.5)
Library API Platforms Started by Year
Caffe Python, C++, Matlab Linux, macOS, Windows Y. Jia, UC Berkeley (BVLC) 2013
Deeplearning4j Java, Scala, Clojure Linux, macOS, Windows, Android A. Gibson, J.Patterson 2014
H2O Python, R Linux, macOS, Windows H2O.ai 2014
MXNet Python, C++, others Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android DMLC 2015
TensorFlow Python, C++ Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android Google 2015
Theano Python Linux, macOS, iOS University of Montreal 2010
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