This is Part 2 of A Neural Network in Python, which was a very simple neural network to learn the XOR function. This part builds on that example to demonstrate more activation functions, learning a simple math function, adding a bias, improvements to the initial random weights, stochastic gradient descent, mean square error loss function,…
In this article, I’ll show you a toy example to learn the XOR logical function. My objective is to make it as easy as possible for you to to see how the basic ideas work, and to provide a basis from which you can experiment further. In real applications, you would not write these programs from scratch…
Hello World is the famous minimal introductory program for many programming languages. But as soon as it’s served its purpose, it’s discarded in the dust of history for more exciting things, such as data types or expressions… This is politically incorrect discrimination and must be stopped! This loyal and true didactic program should have the right to…
The number guessing game incorporates several simple but important elements of elementary programming and is a good candidate for an introductory programming example. If you’ve seen any programming course, you’ve probably seen the “Hello World” program. In Python it’s: print (“Hello World”)This is done to get the student(s) quickly to the point of having successfully installed…
This PyGame program simulates the roll of a die (or dice if you prefer). It’s a fairly simple, straightforward thing to do, though it may be worth noting that the spots display is oh-so-slightly clever. Some spots appear in more than one number, e.g. the middle spot is in all the odd numbers, hence the…
