Here I present the backpropagation algorithm for a continuous target variable and no activation function in hidden layer: although simpler than the one used for… Read More »Neural Networks: The Backpropagation algorithm in a picture
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Listed on my personal website www.markmcilroy.com is my book titled ‘A guide to writing Excel formulas and VBA macros’. The book is available for free… Read More »Free book on Excel formulas and VBA macros
Contributed by Aiko Liu. He enrolled in the NYC Data Science Academy 12-week full time Data Science Bootcamp program taking place between July 5th to September 23rd,… Read More »US GDP Shiny App
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Discover How to Code Machine Algorithms From First Principles With Pure Python and Use them on Real-World Datasets $37 USD You must understand algorithms to… Read More »Book: Machine Learning Algorithms From Scratch
This is a YouTube link to a PBS (Nova) documentary on IBM Watson: The smartest machine ever build – The first time I watched this, I thought… Read More »Women In Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
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