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Tony Holdroyd
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Tony Holdroyd's first degree, from Durham University, was in maths and physics. He also has technical qualifications, including MCSD, MCSD.net, and SCJP. He holds an MSc in computer science from London University. He was a senior lecturer in computer science and maths in further education, designing and delivering programming courses in many languages, including C, C+, Java, C#, and SQL. His passion for neural networks stems from research he did for his MSc thesis. He has developed numerous machine learning, neural network, and deep learning applications, and has advised in the media industry on deep learning as applied to image and music processing. Tony lives in Gravesend, Kent, UK, with his wife, Sue McCreeth, who is a renowned musician.
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The Boston housing dataset

Next, we will apply a similar regression technique to the Boston housing dataset.

The main difference between this and our previous artificial dataset, which had just one feature, is that the Boston housing dataset is real data and has 13 features. This is a regression problem because house prices—the label—we take as being continuously valued.

Again, we start with our imports, as follows:

import tensorflow as tf
from sklearn.datasets import load_boston
from sklearn.preprocessing import scale
import numpy as np

And our important constants are shown as follows:

learning_rate = 0.01
epochs = 10000
display_epoch = epochs//20
n_train = 300
n_valid = 100

Next, we load our dataset and split it into training, validation, and test sets. We train on the training set, and check and fine-tune our trained model on the validation set, to make sure we have...

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Tony Holdroyd

Tony Holdroyd's first degree, from Durham University, was in maths and physics. He also has technical qualifications, including MCSD, MCSD.net, and SCJP. He holds an MSc in computer science from London University. He was a senior lecturer in computer science and maths in further education, designing and delivering programming courses in many languages, including C, C+, Java, C#, and SQL. His passion for neural networks stems from research he did for his MSc thesis. He has developed numerous machine learning, neural network, and deep learning applications, and has advised in the media industry on deep learning as applied to image and music processing. Tony lives in Gravesend, Kent, UK, with his wife, Sue McCreeth, who is a renowned musician.
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