Artificial Intelligence By Example

Step 1 – Defining a feedforward neural network

We look at our piece of paper. We don't have a computer. We're going to have to write code; then we'll hopefully find a computer in a university or a corporation that has a 1960 state-of-the-art language to program in.

We have to be unconventional to solve this problem. First, we must ignore Minsky and Papert's publication and also forget complicated words and theory of the 21st century. In fact, we don't remember much anyway. Time travel made our future fuzzy!

A perceptron is usually represented by a graph. But that doesn't mean much right now. After all, I can't compute circles and lines. In fact, beyond seeing circles and lines, we type characters in computer languages, not circles. So, I ...