Configuring a Deep Learning Environment
Before we finish this chapter, we want you to interact with a real neural network. We will start by covering the main software components used throughout this book and make sure that they are properly installed. We will then explore a pretrained neural network and explore a few of the components and operations discussed earlier in the What are Neural Networks? section.
Software Components for Deep Learning
We'll use the following software components for deep learning:
Python 3
We will be using Python 3 . Python is a general-purpose programming language which is very popular with the scientific community—hence its adoption in deep learning. Python 2 is not supported in this book but can be used to train neural networks instead of Python 3. Even if you chose to implement your solutions in Python 2, consider moving to Python 3 as its modern feature set is far more robust than that of its predecessor.
TensorFlow
TensorFlow is a library used for performing mathematical...