Season 1 Episode 2: Neural Networks: Why They Work and Why They Fail

Ashley Siddiqui
5 days ago
1 min read

This episode demystifies neurons, activation functions, overfitting, underfitting, and generalization. Ashley explains why neural networks sometimes behave unpredictably and why tuning them is part art, part engineering.

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