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Machine Learning With Go

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Machine Learning With Go

Overview of this book

The mission of this book is to turn readers into productive, innovative data analysts who leverage Go to build robust and valuable applications. To this end, the book clearly introduces the technical aspects of building predictive models in Go, but it also helps the reader understand how machine learning workflows are being applied in real-world scenarios. Machine Learning with Go shows readers how to be productive in machine learning while also producing applications that maintain a high level of integrity. It also gives readers patterns to overcome challenges that are often encountered when trying to integrate machine learning in an engineering organization. The readers will begin by gaining a solid understanding of how to gather, organize, and parse real-work data from a variety of sources. Readers will then develop a solid statistical toolkit that will allow them to quickly understand gain intuition about the content of a dataset. Finally, the readers will gain hands-on experience implementing essential machine learning techniques (regression, classification, clustering, and so on) with the relevant Go packages. Finally, the reader will have a solid machine learning mindset and a powerful Go toolkit of techniques, packages, and example implementations.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Introducing deep learning

Although simple neural networks, like the one utilized in the preceding section, are extremely powerful for many scenarios, deep neural network architectures have been applied across industries in recent years on various types of data. These more complicated architectures have been used to beat champions at board/video games, drive cars, generate art, transform images, and much more. It almost seems like you can throw anything at these models and they will do something interesting, but they seem to be particularly well-suited for computer vision, speech recognition, textual inference, and other very complicated and hard-to-define tasks.

We are going to introduce deep learning here and run a deep learning model in Go. However, the application and diversity of deep learning models is huge and growing every day.

There are many books and tutorials on the...