Threshold
The line the total must cross for the neuron to say “yes”.
Learn it through a story
- The Society Committee Vote (Jugnupur Tales Vol 2, Ch 1)
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Related terms
- Supervised learning Learning from examples that come with answers.
- Tampering Secretly changing a system so it gives the answers you want.
- Test data Examples kept hidden, used only to check the model at the end.
- Training The whole process of adjusting a model’s weights using examples.
- Training data The examples an AI learns from.
- Transformer The neural network design behind most modern chatbots, which uses attention to weigh which words matter.