# Practical intro to deeplearning: chihuahuas vs muffins — Pauline Bourmeau (Cookie), William Robinet

**URL:** <https://discourse.ossbase.org/t/practical-intro-to-deeplearning-chihuahuas-vs-muffins-pauline-bourmeau-cookie-william-robinet/676>\
**Category:** 2025 talks / workshops\
**Tags:** 2025, workshop, hacklu\
**Created:** [August 26, 2025, 8:55am UTC](https://discourse.ossbase.org/t/practical-intro-to-deeplearning-chihuahuas-vs-muffins-pauline-bourmeau-cookie-william-robinet/676 "2025-08-26T08:55:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://discourse.ossbase.org/uploads/default/original/1X/4713f3d4fec85f7513775fc2dd36f548a49f8faa.jpeg) [@system](https://discourse.ossbase.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 8:55am UTC](https://discourse.ossbase.org/t/practical-intro-to-deeplearning-chihuahuas-vs-muffins-pauline-bourmeau-cookie-william-robinet/676/1 "2025-08-26T08:55:54Z")

</div>

**Join us at hack.lu 2025 — [Info & Registration](https://2025.hack.lu/info/)**

**Duration:** 90 min  
  
**Type:** Workshop  
  
**Speakers:** Pauline Bourmeau (Cookie), William Robinet

**Abstract**

Once upon a time, an algorithm’s goal was to make a distinction between a chiwawa and a cookie… true story. Human, curiosity is a great thing, and this workshop is built around it.

Here total beginners in AI learn the fundamentals of deep learning, set up their environment, and apply it to image classification. By the end of the workshop, they are able to build a simple web application using Gradio that classifies images.

**Description**

Agenda:

• Short introduction to deep learning

• Setting up the environment

• Hands-on session: we’ll experiment with image classification

• Hands-on session: we build a web app with Gradio

We’ll also be discussing applications to cybersecurity you can prototype, deep learning and training methods, cool the hype and discuss realistic LLM capacities.

[View on pretalx](https://pretalx.com/hack-lu-2025/talk/SHRCZE/)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![wllm-rbnt](https://discourse.ossbase.org/user_avatar/discourse.ossbase.org/wllm-rbnt/32/249_2.png) [@wllm-rbnt](https://discourse.ossbase.org/u/wllm-rbnt)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 8:56am UTC](https://discourse.ossbase.org/t/practical-intro-to-deeplearning-chihuahuas-vs-muffins-pauline-bourmeau-cookie-william-robinet/676/2 "2025-10-24T08:56:28Z")

</div>

Thank you to all people who showed up at our workshop Yesterday!

Here are the resources we mentioned:

- Fast AI courses & tutorials: [https://course.fast.ai/](https://course.fast.ai/)
- Workshop files repository: [wllm-rbnt/hacklu-2025-chihuahuas-vs-muffins - Codeberg.org](https://codeberg.org/wllm-rbnt/hacklu-2025-chihuahuas-vs-muffins)
- Neural networks tutorial videos from the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/aircAruvnKk?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_67000Dx_ZCJB-3pi