I was reading in Bart Kosko’s book: Fuzzy Thinking, where he mentioned that in much of our science, math, logic, and culture, we have assumed a world of blacks and whites that doesn’t change. In other words, everything is either true or false. Even our computers are based on this concept of black and white, especially when we notice how it is based on the binary strings of 0s (black) and 1s (white).

This belief of a bivalence world is not new. For instance, Aristotle wrote what he felt were the black-and-white (binary) laws of logic, laws which scientists and…

In an interview I conducted with Jürgen Schmidhuber, a German computer scientist and artist known for his work in many fields including machine learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and artificial neural networks, I asked him where he sees Deep Learning (a form of machine learning) in the coming 10-years. I got an interesting answer to this question which I would like to share a part of in this post. Jürgen mentioned that by 2025, even minor extensions of existing machine learning and neural network algorithms will achieve many important superhuman feats.

He also added that he expects huge recurrent neural networks…

Deep Learning is a very hot topic nowadays, either in academia or industry. Big companies like Google and Facebook are relying heavily on Deep Learning, and academia is using this technology to solve complex research problems for its state-of-the-art solutions.

Talking about the usage of Deep Learning with skin cancer (i.e. melanoma), from the academic perspective, we can notice the increased number of publications recently published on the topic. In other words, many algorithms are now employing Deep Learning to solve skin cancer issues, like melanoma detection for instance.

Deep Learning in itself is not new. The earliest Deep Learning…

I will be sharing a script using Keras for training a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with transfer learning for melanoma detection. You can find the code in this GitHub repository. In the previous post, the CNN was trained from scratch without augmenting the data.

Before proceeding, make sure that you structure the data as follows (the numbers represent the number of images in each file):

I will be sharing a script using Keras for training a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) from scratch for melanoma detection. You can view the code from this GitHub repository.

Before proceeding however, make sure that you structure the data as follows (the numbers represent the number of images in each file):

I will be sharing a script using Keras for training a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) from scratch with data augmentation for melanoma detection. You can view the code from this GitHub repository. In the previous post, the CNN was trained from scratch without augmenting the data.

Before proceeding, make sure that you structure the data as follows (the numbers represent the number of images in each file):

So in Part-I I gave a simple introduction on what linear regression is and how we can find the equation of the best fit line for our data. In this post, I will show you how to implement the task we worked on in Part-I in PyTorch. So, let’s get started!

The first step is to import the libraries we will be using:

import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

Now, we need to set the hyperparameters, as follows:

input_size = 1
output_size = 1
epochs = 50
learning_rate = 0.0001

The input…