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HN comment orderAt the risk of being pedantic...if you're not familiar with data/math work in Python, the `np` word refers to "numpy", which is an extension to Python that includes array and matrix math...so the OP needs 12 lines, the first being: import numpy as np
3blue1brown is currently doing a terrific series on how neural networks work, which nicely compliments this blog post. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...
I am sick of reading about anything "deep" and "neural" on Hacker News (especially hype/puff pieces), but this blog post is so well-written that I'm upvoting it despite being about ANNs. I guess proper knowledge is the opposite of hype anyway. I wish research papers on AI were a bit more like this and bit less like what they are.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9886555
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 674
- Total comments
- 86
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-07-14 | Beginner Tutorial: A Neural Network in 11 Lines of Python (or Less) | williamtrask | 2 | 0 |
| 2015-07-14 | A Neural Network in 11 Lines of PythonFirst breakout · Best thread | adamnemecek | 341 | 41 |
| 2015-07-17 | A Neural Network in 11 Lines of Python | bpolania | 7 | 1 |
| 2016-01-14 | A Neural Network in 11 Lines of Python (Part 1) | Anilm3 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016-03-28 | A Neural Network in 11 Lines of Python | devy | 82 | 16 |
| 2017-10-18 | A Neural Network in 11 Lines of Python (2015)Hall induction · Latest 20+ point return | williamtrask | 234 | 26 |
| 2025-04-04 | A Neural Network in 11 lines of Python (2015) | williamtrask | 7 | 2 |