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What is deep learning?

Andrew French presents a video discussing the difference between deep learning and machine learning.

How does deep learning differ from machine learning?

Broadly speaking, in traditional machine learning you will need to select both a type of model and choose which features to extract from your data in order to train it.

In deep learning on the other hand, you will use a neural network model in which the features of interest are selected within the training process itself.

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