Convolutional neural networks (or convnets for short) are used in situations where data can be expressed as a “map” wherein the proximity between two data points indicates how related they are. An image is such a map, which is why you so often hear of convnets in the context of image analysis. If you take an image and randomly rearrange all of its pixels…

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