I’ve tried to mess around with neural networks(NNs) for a while now. Problem is, we like to think of neural networks as this black box where a bunch of magic happens and you get some cool answer.
But there’s stuff that goes on in that box, stuff that might be skipped over in order to get to the complicated, theoretical things. But that “stuff” is essential to understanding how a NN works or doesn’t work and why.
Basically, NNs work kind of like the human brain. We have neurons which connect to one another and fire commands to one another, eventually producing an output. NNs are the same in that perspective, but they use perceptrons.

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