CS5720 - Week 9
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Jupyter Notebooks for Deep Learning

What are Jupyter Notebooks?

Jupyter Notebooks are interactive computational environments that combine code execution, rich text, mathematics, plots, and media in a single document.
Perfect for Deep Learning:

Interactive experimentation
Immediate visual feedback
Document your thinking process
Share reproducible research
Industry Standard:
Used by researchers at Google Brain, OpenAI, and DeepMind for prototyping and sharing deep learning experiments.

Key Features for ML

  • 📝
    Code and Markdown Cells
    Mix executable code with formatted documentation
  • 📊
    Inline Visualization
    Plots and images appear directly in the notebook
  • GPU Support
    Access CUDA-enabled GPUs for training
  • 🎛️
    Interactive Widgets
    Create sliders and controls for experiments

Jupyter Notebook Interface

[1] Markdown
# Training a Neural Network
Let's build a simple neural network using TensorFlow...
[2] Code
import tensorflow as tf
model = tf.keras.Sequential([...])
model.compile(optimizer='adam', ...)
Model compiled successfully ✓
[3] Code
history = model.fit(X_train, y_train, epochs=10)
Epoch 1/10 ████████████ loss: 0.453
Epoch 2/10 ████████████ loss: 0.201
...
Prepared by Dr. Gorkem Kar