PHPSW: Time for the Future, June 2018
13 Jun 2018 at Desk Lodge

Excellent talk. A quite complex topic to explain in short time but it was delivered perfectly. Great

Really accessible intro - thank you for encouraging us to ask questions at any point! It was really helpful that you recommended some resources and that you interspersed the technical stuff with comedy.
I struggled to visualise what figure each step might produce - perhaps do an example annotating each line with an example value at that point?
I really enjoyed it and I have a much better understanding of ML, thank you!!

Great talk, bringing a complex topic down to the basics. It may have been helpful to give further examples of use

Knowledgeable speaker who clearly enjoys the subject. Great delivery, treading the line really well between a dry informative talk and making it interesting. I did get mildly confused by the title, though - "an introduction to neural networks illustrated using PHP" may be nearer to the output... if a mouthful!

Great talk! Really enjoyed learning about neural networks! Even though I had to really pay attention to keep up with the various slides and maths, it made sense and explained the topic in a friendly way. Would like to learn more!

It’s one of the best talks I’ve heard on machine learning and it’s definitely more interesting than the whole module I had at uni on the same topic.

There was a typo on one of the first few slides on weights. The word strength is missing an h. Maybe a bit of explanation of the math side of things would help, especially those who don’t remember the terminology. The math equations towards the end was a bit overwhelming, so if there’s any way of simplifying them, it would help.

Over an excellent talk!