Chapter 3. Introduction to neural prediction: forward propagation

In this chapter

  • A simple network making a prediction
  • What is a neural network, and what does it do?
  • Making a prediction with multiple inputs
  • Making a prediction with multiple outputs
  • Making a prediction with multiple inputs and outputs
  • Predicting on predictions

“I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It’s a uick way to look like an idiot.”

Warren Ellis comic-book writer, novelist, and screenwriter

Step 1: Predict

This chapter is about prediction

In the previous chapter, you learned about the paradigm predict, compare, learn. In this chapter, we’ll dive deep into the first step: predict. You may remember that the predict step looks a lot like this:

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