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Discussion on: Explain neural networks Like I'm Five

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IsaacLeimgruber

Grandma forgot her legendary soup recipe and you have 10 attempts to make the best attempt to her soup. For each attempt grandma, your mom and your dad will each taste the resulting soup from different combinations of the feedbacks they gave from your last soups. At the last attempt you will have soup quite close to grandma's.
The inputs are the ingredients, the weights are the quantities of each ingredient and the neurons are your different soup attempts. The feedbacks are the losses.

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rhymes

a-w-e-s-o-m-e!

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Nested Software

I think this is the best answer in the spirit of "explain like I'm five." I always think it's too hard to do it for something like this, but you did a great job here!

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IsaacLeimgruber • Edited

Haha I did not expect grandma'soup to have such success and had small doubt about the analogies :)