If you are hearing the word “perceptron” for the first time, it sounds a lot like a futuristic robot which can perceive things right? Well, that’s not exactly what it means! Perceptron is a machine learning algorithm for supervised classification. It is one of the very first algorithms to be formulated in the field of artificial intelligence. When it first came out, it was very promising. But over the following years, the performance didn’t exactly reach the expectations. It was studied for many years and the theory was modified and extended in a lot of ways. Now, it has become an integral part in the field of artificial neural networks. So what exactly is a perceptron? Where do we use it in real life? Continue reading “Perceiving The Perceptron”
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Artificial Neural Networks
We want our machines to learn everything on their own as much as possible. Over the past few decades, researchers have come up with many theories and formulations about how we can achieve this in the best possible way. This realm is called machine learning. We come up with algorithms to teach the machines how to learn. I have discussed more about machine learning here. Human brain seems to achieve this rather effortlessly. Our ultimate goal is to make the machines as good as our brains, or even better. The formulation of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is an attempt towards this. Continue reading “Artificial Neural Networks”
Perpetual Enigma 