Course Abstract

This notebook explores the biological and psychological inspirations to the world's first neural networks.

Learning Objectives

The goals of this exercise include:

• Exploring how neural networks use data to learn
• Understanding the math behind a neuron

Prerequisites

Anyone can run the code to see how it works, but to get the most out of this content, we recommend:

• An understanding of fundamental programming concepts in Python 3 such as functions, loops, dictionaries, and arrays.
• An understanding of how to compute a regression line.