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Browser-based Neural Network Demo
What is a Neural Network?
It’s a technique for building a computer program that learns from data. It is based very loosely on how we think the human brain works. First, a collection of software “neurons” are created and connected together, allowing them to send messages to each other. Next, the network is asked to solve a problem, which it attempts to do over and over, each time strengthening the connections that lead to success and diminishing those that lead to failure.
-- from TensorFlow OSS library (formerly of Google Brain)
Original TensorFlow whitepaper
Documented uses of TensorFlow
Udacity Machine Learning MOOC course
What is a Neural Network?
It’s a technique for building a computer program that learns from data. It is based very loosely on how we think the human brain works. First, a collection of software “neurons” are created and connected together, allowing them to send messages to each other. Next, the network is asked to solve a problem, which it attempts to do over and over, each time strengthening the connections that lead to success and diminishing those that lead to failure.
-- from TensorFlow OSS library (formerly of Google Brain)
Original TensorFlow whitepaper
Documented uses of TensorFlow
Udacity Machine Learning MOOC course
The Swiss Roll is tricky.
(Fwiw this demo is not using Google's Tensorflow, it's based on ConvnetJS written by some Stanford smarty pants)
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 9:23 PM on April 12, 2016
(Fwiw this demo is not using Google's Tensorflow, it's based on ConvnetJS written by some Stanford smarty pants)
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 9:23 PM on April 12, 2016
The last time I was this baffled was when I tried Snapchat. Is there a "for dummies" article somewhere that explains what is happening?
posted by dominik at 1:01 AM on April 13, 2016
posted by dominik at 1:01 AM on April 13, 2016
dominik: Here's an introduction to machine learning (more or less the same thing as a neural network) that lays out the basic concepts in a very comprehensible manner.
posted by Cash4Lead at 5:46 AM on April 13, 2016 [5 favorites]
posted by Cash4Lead at 5:46 AM on April 13, 2016 [5 favorites]
I studied the basics of neural networks and machine learnings in the university and it was one of the most interesting things that I've ever studied. Definitely something that can help in almost all aspects of life. Our professor even told believed that (when perfected) those types of algorithms can be used to determine the future.
Exciting times are coming, guys!
posted by Jo88 at 6:31 AM on April 28, 2016
Exciting times are coming, guys!
posted by Jo88 at 6:31 AM on April 28, 2016
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If you spend a little time reading, it's a really lovely and powerful visualization of a neural network classifier. Lots of fun knobs to tweak and the orange/blue graphics make it possible to sort of divine intuitively what the network is doing.
posted by Nelson at 7:18 PM on April 12, 2016 [1 favorite]