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Introduction to Neural Nets

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Neural networks, or neural nets, are a popular way of implementing machine “intelligence.” The idea is that they behave like the neuron in a brain. In our taxonomy, neural nets fall into the category of true machine learning, as shown on the right.

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Paluszek, M., Thomas, S. (2019). Introduction to Neural Nets. In: MATLAB Machine Learning Recipes. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3916-2_8

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