Developers should be prepared to integrate with and use their deep learning portfolio. Before we get some scope on their API's and endpoints some background in deep learning (a specialized subset of machine learning concentrated on the "Greedy Layer-Wise Unsupervised Pretraining procedure" - Hinton, 2006 - University of Toronto) and the "Long Short-Term Memory model - Hochreiter and Schmidhuber 1997" will be required.

Design/Theory Preparation

Get the following Nov 2016 MIT book from Amazon by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Benglo, Aaron Courville - (one for work, and one for home - as it is usually out of stock). Review your linear transformation and matrix math to prep.

https://www.amazon.ca/Deep-Learning-Ian-Goodfellow/dp/0262035618/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486501444&sr=8-1&keywords=deep+learning

https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course/

Installing Tensorflow

follow/verify via https://www.tensorflow.org/install/install_mac

obrien:obrienlabs amdocs$ docker run -it tensorflow/tensorflow bash
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root@4c49aac50ce1:/notebooks# python
Python 2.7.12 (default, Dec  4 2017, 14:50:18) 
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import tensorflow as tf
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/h5py/__init__.py:36: FutureWarning: Conversion of the second argument of issubdtype from `float` to `np.floating` is deprecated. In future, it will be treated as `np.float64 == np.dtype(float).type`.
  from ._conv import register_converters as _register_converters
>>> hello = tf.constant('Hello, TensorFlow!')

>>> sess = tf.Session()

2018-04-22 23:57:53.221560: I tensorflow/core/platform/cpu_feature_guard.cc:140] Your CPU supports instructions that this TensorFlow binary was not compiled to use: AVX2 FMA
>>> print(sess.run(hello))
Hello, TensorFlow!