But what is a neural network? | Deep learning chapter 1

What are the neurons, why are there layers, and what is the math underlying it?
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For those who want to learn more, I highly recommend the book by Michael Nielsen that introduces neural networks and deep learning:

There are two neat things about this book. First, it’s available for free, so consider joining me in making a donation to Nielsen if you get something out of it. And second, it’s centered around walking through some code and data, which you can download yourself, and which covers the same example that I introduced in this video. Yay for active learning!

I also highly recommend Chris Olah’s blog:

For more videos, Welch Labs also has some great series on machine learning:

For those of you looking to go *even* deeper, check out the text “Deep Learning” by Goodfellow, Bengio, and Courville.

Also, the publication Distill is just utterly beautiful:

Lion photo by Kevin Pluck

Звуковая дорожка на русском языке: Влад Бурмистров.

Thanks to these viewers for their contributions to translations
German: @fpgro
Hebrew: Omer Tuchfeld
Hungarian: Máté Kaszap
Italian: @teobucci, Teo Bucci

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Timeline:
0:00 – Introduction example
1:07 – Series preview
2:42 – What are neurons?
3:35 – Introducing layers
5:31 – Why layers?
8:38 – Edge detection example
11:34 – Counting weights and biases
12:30 – How learning relates
13:26 – Notation and linear algebra
15:17 – Recap
16:27 – Some final words
17:03 – ReLU vs Sigmoid

Correction 14:45 – The final index on the bias vector should be “k”

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Animations largely made using manim, a scrappy open source python library.

If you want to check it out, I feel compelled to warn you that it’s not the most well-documented tool, and has many other quirks you might expect in a library someone wrote with only their own use in mind.

Music by Vincent Rubinetti.
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