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2 articles
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2026-08-25
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Deep Learning Basics
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FREE
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PAPER
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13 min read
Activation Functions from Scratch — Why Nonlinearity Is Non-Negotiable
Without an activation function, a hundred stacked layers can do exactly what one layer does. Starting from that one-line proof, this article traces why sigmoid was abandoned, why ReLU won, and why today's LLMs settled on SiLU and SwiGLU — with an interactive plot where you can drag the input and watch the slope.
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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.