4.4 Implementing backprop from scratch (single hidden layer)

From the classic McCulloch-Pitts neuron to Hebbian learning rules.

: Cannot solve non-linearly separable problems like the XOR gate without multi-layer expansions. 2. Multi-Layer Feedforward Networks (MLPs)

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4.1 Single-layer perceptron (from-scratch)

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At its core, a forward pass through a neural layer is a matrix multiplication followed by an element-wise function application: