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Test-Driven Machine Learning
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Test-Driven Machine Learning

by Justin Bozonier
November 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
190 pages
4h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 2. Perceptively Testing a Perceptron

Even for people comfortable with using them, neural networks can seem like a big black box. On top of that, the little bit of randomness within them just makes their inner workings that much more mysterious.

In this chapter, we're going to start exploring TDD-ing machine learning algorithms by building a very simple neural network using TDD. Then we will use this as an opportunity to more deeply understand how they work.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Building the simplest perceptron possible
  • Using a spreadsheet to develop simple use cases we can test to and reproduce
  • Using TDD to develop our first machine-learning algorithm
  • Testing with datasets

You will need some sort of spreadsheet ...

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