Jeremy Howard, Why you cant afford to ignore deep learning

Few involved in life sciences have a background in the neural network fundamentals that underpin deep learning, and that can make it quite overwhelming when trying to learn about this topic for the first time. And it doesn t help that there s so much breathless hype around, which makes it hard to know what opportunities are real, and what is just marketing. I came to deep learning applications in the life sciences from the other direction although I ve been working with neural networks for around 25 year