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Recent Developments in Deep Learning

Google TechTalks · talk · Watch on YouTube

Machine learning & deep learningUniversity lectures & courses

What it is

Geoff Hinton's 2010 Google Tech Talk on deep belief networks, learning layers of representation one at a time from unlabeled data, and extending them with multiplicative interactions.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited as a watchable early introduction to deep learning from its pioneer, and remembered as a mind-blowing moment in the field.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2010, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “Prof. Hinton's videos are very watchable”

    Hinton's videos are very watchable

    Devilboy, 2012-06 · Recommendation · in “Building high-level features using large scale unsupervised learning”

  2. “There's a second Google Tech Talk video from a few years later that talks directly about phoneme recognition as well”

    Hinton tech talk covering phoneme recognition with deep belief networks

    tylerhobbs, 2012-06 · Recommendation · in “Microsoft Research make breakthrough in audio speech recognition”

  3. “There's a great Google Tech Talk by Geoff Hinton that serves as a slightly technical introduction to Deep Learning if anyone's interested”

    Slightly technical introduction to deep learning

    markovbling, 2014-03 · Recommendation · in “Is Google Cornering the Market on Deep Learning?”

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Topics: geoff hinton, deep learning, restricted boltzmann machines, unsupervised learning, google tech talk

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