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6) Layers can be recursively nested to create bigger computation blocks. Each layer will track the weights of its sublayers (both trainable and non-trainable).pic.twitter.com/WeJMQ2nkte

7) Layers can create losses during the forward pass. This is especially useful for regularization losses. The losses created by sublayers are recursively tracked by the parent layers.pic.twitter.com/TcsfyBqilg

8) These losses are cleared by the top-level layer at the start of each forward pass -- they don't accumulate. `layer.losses` always contain only the losses created during the *last* forward pass. You would typically use these losses by summing them when writing a training loop.pic.twitter.com/ROYk5AOQUL

9) You know that TF 2.0 is eager by default. Running eagerly is great for debugging, but you will get better performance by compiling your computation into static graphs. Static graphs are a researcher's best friends! You can compile any function by wrapping it in a tf.function:pic.twitter.com/CnSrpVmCJc

10) Some layers, in particular the `BatchNormalization` layer and the `Dropout` layer, have different behaviors during training and inference. For such layers, it is standard practice to expose a `training` (boolean) argument in the `call` method.pic.twitter.com/FA5pZM3kWS

12) To build deep learning models, you don't have to use object-oriented programming all the time. All layers we've seen so far can also be composed functionally, like this (we call it the "Functional API"):pic.twitter.com/OohI9IZlQ5