+1 for Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms. A fantastic book by the late David C Mackay. Part V has an interesting presentation of neural networks, but really this book is about information theory and Bayesian probability.
If there was a way to organize a group and work through the classes - it would be awesome!
I'd be willing to team up with you to learn Deep... ahem... learning.
I'm familiar with linear Algebra, so I could offer help and study R or Python while you work through it
How do I team up with you? I am familiar with R and Python as well. I haven't officially done a Linear Algebra class but I understand matrix operations well.
My email is in my profile?
Can't find it in your profile
I would also like to team up, hit me up at pedromamoura at hotmail.com
fullmetalalcoholic84 [at] gmail [dot] com
Really good idea. One of the things that I found lacking (in retrospect, now that you mention it) in Coursera when I used it was that study groups weren't an official feature. I'm sure people made them unofficially in the forum, but it wasn't an official part of Coursera. I think it would really elevate MOOCs to another level if you could have face-to-face Skype-like study groups with other students during assignments.
Agree ... I think we have a small group here who is interested
I'm thinking of setting up a Slack (or similar, like Ryver) team for this, as opposed to pairing. Any interest?