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New! The YouTube Vid Series: Backpropagation and More

New! The YouTube Vid Series: Backpropagation and More

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If you are branding yourself as an AI/neural networks/deep learning person, how well do you really know the backpropagation derivation? That is, could you work through that derivation, on your own, without having to find a tutorial on it? If not – you’re in good company. MOST people haven’t worked through that derivation – and for good reason. MOST people don’t remember their chain rule methods from first semester calculus. (It probably doesn’t help if I say that the backprop…

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Selecting a Neural Network Transfer Function: Classic vs. Current

Selecting a Neural Network Transfer Function: Classic vs. Current

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Neural Network Transfer Functions: Sigmoid, Tanh, and ReLU   Making it or breaking it with neural networks: how to make smart choices.     Why We Weren’t Getting Convergence   This last week, in working with a very simple and straightforward XOR neural network, a lot of my students were having convergence problems. The most likely reason? Very likely, it’s been my choice for the transfer function. I had given them a very simple network. (Lots of them are still…

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