Bare bones introduction to machine learning from linear regression to convolutional neural networks using Theano.

Dataset It's worth noting that this library assumes that the reader has access to the mnist dataset. This dataset is freely available and is accessible through Yann LeCun's personal website.

If you want to automate the download of the dataset, there is an included file that will do this for you. Simply run the following: sudo ./download_mnist.sh

Known Issues Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib This results from a broken openssl installation on mac. It can be fixed by uninstalling and reinstalling openssl: sudo brew remove openssl brew install openssl