Josh Patterson presented on deep learning and DL4J. He began with an overview of deep learning, explaining it as automated feature engineering where machines learn representations of the world. He then discussed DL4J, describing it as the "Hadoop of deep learning" - an open source deep learning library with Java, Scala, and Python APIs that supports parallelization on Hadoop, Spark, and GPUs. He demonstrated building deep learning workflows with DL4J and Canova, using the Iris dataset as an example to show how data can be vectorized with Canova and then a model trained on it using DL4J from the command line. He concluded by describing Skymind as a distribution of DL4J with enterprise
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