Deep Learning in Clojure with Cortex

Deep Learning in Clojure with Cortex

There is an awesome new Clojure-first machine learning library called Cortex that was open sourced recently. I’ve been exploring it lately and wanted to share my discoveries so far in this post. In our exploration, we are going to tackle one of the classic classification problems of the internet. How do you tell the difference between a cat and dog pic? Where to Start? For any machine learning problem, we’re going to need data. For this, we can use Kaggle’s data for the Cats vs Dogs Challenge. The training data consists of 25,000 images of cats and dogs. That should be more than enough to train our computer to recognize cats from doggies. We also need some idea of how to train against the data. Luckily, the Cortex project has…


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