Machine Learning Resources
Portland Machine Learning Resources
PDXStartups slack - Join the #machine-learning channel
Calagator - Portland area events. Many technical and AI/ML related.
Portland Data Science Group - has applied group projects.
Jim Tyhurst's list of ML resources - and 'awesome' style list of local meetups and events.
Deep Learning Software
Keras - high level nn API that runs on top of TensorFlow or Theano. A good place to start.
TensorFlow - library for distributed numerical computation and data flow graphs.
PyTorch - Python based framework from Facebook based on Torch.
mxnet - fast and flexible. Originally from University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University adopted by AWS and now an Apache incubator project.
H20 - interesting application with many different algorithms.
Natural Language Processing (NLP) / Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
Natural Language Toolkit - the leading platform for NLP education and exploration.
spaCy - newer more production oriented, minimal and opinionated.
gensim - topic modelling for humans.
Online Courses
Practical Deep Learning for Coders / Fast.ai - great hands on class from Geremy Howard and Rachel Thomas
Books
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow / Geron
Deep Learning with Python / Chollet - from the author of Keras.
Deep Learning / Goodfellow, Bengio and Courville - text book by top DL scientists.