What One Neuron Cannot Do

How a network computes, why gradients vanish, and what makes depth trainable

One unit draws one straight fence. That is not a limitation of the training rule, or of how long you train, or of the learning rate. It is what the formula w · x + b is. This lesson finds a problem with four data points that no straight fence can solve, and proves that no weights exist for it.

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