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2 articles
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2026-08-04
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Deep Learning Basics
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FREE
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7 min read
Neural Networks from Scratch — From One Neuron to Many Layers
What a single neuron actually computes, and why stacking layers is pointless without an activation function — shown with a one-line proof that composing linear maps just gives you another linear map. Metaphor, math, an interactive figure, then fifteen lines of numpy.
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2026-08-04
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Deep Learning Basics
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★ MEMBER
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9 min read
Backpropagation from Scratch — It Is All Just the Chain Rule
Why you can get gradients for ten million parameters for roughly the cost of one forward pass. The chain rule, computational graphs, a two-layer network worked by hand with real numbers, and where vanishing gradients come from — every symbol explained as it appears.