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Neural Networks, Visually
Animated explanations of how neural networks learn, from a single neuron to the transformers behind modern chatbots. Builds intuition without any programming.
8 video lessons · 2 h 26 min · taught by Grant Sanderson
Lesson 1 of 8 · 19 min
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What you will learn
- Picture a network as layers of neurons, weights and biases
- Explain gradient descent and what a cost function measures
- Follow how backpropagation assigns blame to each weight
- Describe attention and why transformers changed language AI
Before you start
- Prerequisites
- Comfort with high-school algebra. Some calculus helps for chapter 4.
- Cost
- Free.
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