The focus of the second meetup were the basics of Artificial Neural Networks, the mandatory (and therefore somewhat boring) introductions to related fields and also principles on which many of the ideas discussed later are built upon.
News
Starting this meetup, we decided to devote some time in the beginning of our meetups to a discussions on 'news' in the Deep/Machine Learning world that caught our attention since the last meeting.
The idea is that since the field of DL/ML is moving very fast, it is quite easy to miss interesting gems that get released or published. The news section is an open floor for anyone to come up and present anything at least tangentially related to DL/ML that is "new" and could be of interest to the whole group.
These "news" items will then be preserved and published as part of this writeup.
Presentation
The presentation used on this meetup, along with a list of references used in its preparation can be found here.