Simple Perceptron example?

[joeyklee]

For me one of the "ah-ha" moments was seeing what is going on in a Perceptron. Seeing how simple "intelligence" can be was very helpful to demystify the idea of defining fitness.

• NOC chapter: https://natureofcode.com/book/chapter-10-neural-networks/
• Example from NOC of a vehicle "learning to steer towards targets": https://joeyklee.github.io/sandbox/nature-of-code/nn-steering-perceptron/

[shiffman]

I was thinking this material would be part of week 4 - DIY neural nets (which is my theoretical deadline for a rewrite of this chapter), but I could cover / assign the first section on the perceptron earlier.

[joeyklee]

@shiffman - excellent! That's great to hear. I think it makes sense to have it in week 4 unless it is too much to pack into 1 week.

[shiffman]

There is a lot to do this week so I'm not sure if a full discussion of the Perceptron fits. I wonder if it might work well to double back into some of the details next week when we look at a second round of examples with the DIY neural network. I got lost in tensors this weekend so didn't get to make major revisions to chapter 10 yet. I should at a minimum add some links to #39