A long time ago, I fell in love with autoencoders.

Santiago Valdarrama
3 min readMar 13, 2021
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Autoencoders made me fall in love with machine learning early on.

Hey, if they got me, maybe this is the gateway that will make you more involved in the field!

Autoencoders are data compression algorithms built using neural networks. A network encodes (compresses) the original input into an intermediate representation, and another network reverses the…

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Santiago Valdarrama

I build machine learning systems until 5 pm. Then I come here and tell you stories about them.