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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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Building and instantiating our model

As we have seen previously, one technique for building a model is to pass the required layers into the tf.keras.Sequential() constructor. In this instance, we have three layers: an embedding layer, an RNN layer, and a dense layer.

The first, embedding layer is a lookup table of vectors, one vector for the numeric value of each character. It has the dimension, embedding_dimension. The middle, the recurrent layer is a GRU; its size is recurrent_nn_units. The last layer is a dense output layer of the length vocabulary_length units.

What the model does is look up the embedding, run the GRU for a single time step using the embedding for input, and pass this to the dense layer, which generates logits (log odds) for the next character.

A diagram showing this is as follows:

The code that implements this model is, therefore, as follows:

def build_model...
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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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