To get the most out of this book

1. I assume that you're already experienced with more traditional data science and predictive modeling techniques such as Linear/Logistic Regression and Random Forest. If this is your first experience with machine learning, this may be a little difficult for you.
2. I also assume that you have at least some experience in programming with Python, or at least another programming language such as Java or C++.
3. Deep learning is computationally intensive, and some of the models we build here require an NVIDIA GPU to run in a reasonable amount of time. If you don't own a fast GPU, you may wish to use a GPU-based cloud instance on either Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform.