Neural Networks

Teach the weight from one mistake

A journey through training a small network with Botie.

Neural Networks · A journey with Botie

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Botie's notebook

How Do We Turn a Collection of Parts into a Learning Procedure?

Part 1 of 3

Knowing how a neuron calculates an output does not yet tell us how to train a useful network. We still have to decide how to initialise it, how many examples to process together, how to measure mistakes, and how far to move the parameters after each measurement.

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