Activation Functions For Neural Networks & Deep Learning

Explaining why neural networks can learn (nearly) anything and everything

Egor Howell
Towards Data Science
8 min readOct 12, 2023

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Background

In my previous article, we introduced the multi-layer perceptron (MLP), which is just a set of stacked interconnected perceptrons. I highly recommend you check my previous post if you are unfamiliar with…

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