What *is* a Neural Network?

But what is a Neural Network? - 3blue1brown

For those who want to learn more, I highly recommend the book by Michael Nielsen introducing neural networks and deep learning: https://goo.gl/Zmczdy.

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.

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Written on April 24, 2019, Last update on January 7, 2023
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