Revisiting Keras for R

It’s been a while since this blog featured content about Keras for R, so you might’ve thought that the project was dormant. It’s not! In fact, Keras for R is better than ever, with two recent releases adding powerful capabilities that considerably lighten previously tedious tasks. This post provides a high-level overview. Future posts will go into more detail on some of the most helpful new features, as well as dive into the powerful low-level enhancements that make the former possible.

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