Purpose: To start to understand the basic idea behind how a Neural Network works by building the most basic unit a simple neuron using a spreadsheet. Objectives: - To see we can start building machine learning tools in commonly used software applications such as a spreadsheet without a lot of programming (though programming is good fun); - To see if we change a few values and it changes what the neuron does. What might be helpful to know before we start? Don't worry the video will mention these and show you them in action. In the press we see a lot of talk about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and one of these often mention is Deep Learning which is a form of something called a Neural Network. One way to think of a Neural Network is in our brains we lots of processing units called neurones, which are connected together to form a massive network of neurones, which is a neural network. What computer scientists have done is taken the idea and used it create an artificial...
Robots and getting computers to work with the physical world is fun; this blog looks at my own personal experimenting and building in this area.