Simple Neural Networks in Python

Aidan Wilson
Towards Data Science
11 min readOct 24, 2019

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What is a Neural Network?

A neural network is loosely based on how the human brain works: many neurons connected to other neurons, passing information through their connections and firing when the input to a neuron surpasses a certain threshold. Our artificial neural network will consist of artificial neurons and synapses with information being passed between them. The synapses, or connections, will be weighted according to the neuron’s strength of influence on determining the output. These synaptic weights will go through an optimization process called…

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