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This project uses a type of artificial intelligence called a Convolutional Neural Network, or CNN, to look at images of handwritten digits and figure out which number they represent.

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This project uses a type of artificial intelligence called a Convolutional Neural Network, or CNN, to look at images of handwritten digits and figure out which number they represent. In everyday terms, it is teaching a computer to read handwriting, specifically the digits zero through nine, by showing it many examples and letting it learn the patterns that distinguish a handwritten three from a handwritten eight. The project is built in Jupyter Notebook, which is a tool that lets you write and run code interactively, making it easy to see results as you go. Someone would use this as a learning example for understanding how image recognition with deep learning works, or as a starting point for building their own digit-reading tool.

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