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John P. Murphy

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Engineer and writer living in New England.

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No-Hype AI Part 2: Making a Neural Network Do Something

In the last post, we put together a neural network: A set of neurons, each of which has a whole bunch of weighted inputs and one simple function that sums up and transforms those inputs into a single output number. But right now, it doesn’t do anything or mean anything. Even if you poke it with a stick. We can make a neural network, but we can’t yet design one. Getting there is going to require th

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	The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March/April 2016 (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Book 130) by C.C. Finlay (Goodreads Author) (editor), Marc Laidlaw (Goodreads Author), Cat Rambo (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Liar 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alembical 3: A Distillation of Three Novellas by Matthew S. Rotundo (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Lawrence M. Schoen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kam Oi Lee (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crossed Genres Quarterly 2 by Bart R. Leib (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kay T. Holt (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kelly Jennings (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death in a Tin Can 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Crossed Genres Issue 29: Mystery by Bart R. Leib (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kay T. Holt (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Barbara Krasnoff (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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