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CS231n 2016: Introduction and Historical Context
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The first lecture of Stanford's CS231n Winter 2016 course on convolutional neural networks for visual recognition, introducing the course and the historical context of computer vision.
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HN lists it as a free, brilliant introduction to deep learning and computer vision, often within ML self-study plans.
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This 2016 course introduction is useful for historical orientation in computer vision. Later course lectures assume programming, calculus and linear algebra; use this opening to assess that background.
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Make a short timeline of the approaches introduced and separate the historical examples from present-day practice. Choose a follow-up course section only after checking its prerequisites.
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