Ask HN: Is it important to know backpropogation when studying ML/ Deep Learning?

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7 years ago

I could understand how in an earlier age, knowing backprop was quite important. But is there any real world use for this now that most of these aspects have been hidden from a practitioners view via tools and frameworks like Tensorflow, Fast.ai etc

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