This is a very long conversation – communicating it is my highest priority right now, but it’s a huge undertaking. For now I’ll just say that the most important part to my mind is learning to think in terms of dimensionality reduction. See Chris Olah’s post Visualizing MNIST: An Exploration of Dimensionality Reduction if you’re unfamiliar with the subject.
This is a very long conversation – communicating it is my highest priority right now, but it’s a huge undertaking. For now I’ll just say that the most important part to my mind is learning to think in terms of dimensionality reduction. See Chris Olah’s post Visualizing MNIST: An Exploration of Dimensionality Reduction if you’re unfamiliar with the subject.