Neural Network Projects with Python

Why neural networks?

Before we dive into creating our own neural network, it is worth understanding why neural networks have gained such an important foothold in machine learning and AI.

The first reason is that neural networks are universal function approximators. What that means is that given any arbitrary function that we are trying to model, no matter how complex, neural networks are always able to represent that function. This has a profound implication on neural networks and AI in general. Assuming that any problem in the world can be described by a mathematical function (no matter how complex), we can use neural networks to represent that function, effectively modeling anything in the world. A caveat to this is that while scientists ...