A Quick Introduction to Vanilla Neural Networks

Get the theory behind neural networks straight once and for all!

A 2-layer “vanilla” Neural Network.

Lauren Holzbauer was an Insight Fellow in Summer 2018.

In my last post, we went back to the year 1943, tracking neural network research from the McCulloch & Pitts paper, “A Logical Calculus of Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity” to 2012, when “AlexNet” became the first CNN architecture to win…

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