A friendly introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks and Image Recognition

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A friendly explanation of how computer recognize images, based on Convolutional Neural Networks.
All the math required is knowing how to add and subtract 1's. (Bonus if you know calculus, but not needed.)
For a brush up on Neural Networks, check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR9h47Jtqyw

For a code implementation, check out this repo:
https://github.com/luisguiserr....ano/manning/tree/mas

0:00 Introduction
0:22 Simple World
1:05 Keyboard
1:33 Image recognition software
4:39 Image Recognition Classifier
6:12 Artificial Intelligence
8:47 Gradient Descent
10:26 Slightly More Complex World
11:47 Previous Knowledge
24:27 Convolutional Neural Network
28:27 Advanced World