Last time we were talking about adding hidden layers to our neural network, and it did well solving binary classification tasks. But what if we have more entities in our ontology? Let’s figure out how to teach our neural net how to solve multiple entity classification problems!

Generating data

When it comes to the neural networks training dataset comes first! We will generate 3 segments of the dataset to demonstrate how to work with more than two classifications. Each segment will contain two dementia arrays of coordinates and we will specify the range of these points to group them together. Therefore each segment will be centered around 0:-3, 3,3 and -3,3 points. And each segment will correspond with one of the outputs. …

In my first and second articles about neural networks, I was working with perceptrons, a single-layer neural network. And even though our AI was able to recognize simple patterns, it wasn’t possible to use it, for example, for object recognition on images. That’s why today we’ll talk about hidden layers and will try to upgrade perceptrons to the multilayer neural network.

Hidden Layers

Why do we need hidden layers? Perceptrons recognize simple patterns, and maybe if we add more learning iteration, they might learn how to recognize more complex patterns? Actually, no. …

In our previous article, we built from scratch a simple neural network that was able to learn and perform a very simple task. Today we will optimize our network, make it object-oriented, and introduce such concepts as learning rate and biases. And let’s add a fw simple but real-world cases so 0 and 1 turn into some sort of the story.

Prerequisite

The same as last time, we are going to need only one external library to perform computation, NumPY, and, of course, Python itself.

Inputs

Learning is a meta-skill which we all desperately need to survive in our rapidly changing singularitarian reality. It doesn’t matter what you are learning to play drums, writing poetry or computer science. It does all require industry cognitive effort. It’s very common to get lost during the learning process, feel depressed or even decide to give up. Digital distracting environment which is not helping us to focus on complex problems.

Good news everyone! Learning it is a skill and like any other skill we can train it and become a master of our learning process. …

I have been wanting to play with neural networks for a very long time and finally I found a window of opportunity to mess around with neural nets. It’s pretty far away from Skynet, and I don’t think that I fully grasped the math behind this, but let’s teach AI to do something simple first.

Theory Behind the Code

Neural networks are not a new concept. They were first introduced by Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts in 1943.

We are going to build a single-layer neural net without hidden layers or a perceptron. It will consist of an input layer with training examples, synapses or weights, and neurons, and an output layer with correct answers. …

Why do I love computers? Because they are able and willing to do boring work for us. If we give them precise instructions of course. I believe that computers should be used to release people from repetitive non-creative/non-philosophical work. They can do it much better and people can focus on doing something more interesting.

Problem definition

One of my non-tech colleagues had a problem processing massive pdf documents (several thousands pages). They were very frustrated because they had to spend the whole day splitting several thousands pages into smaller docs of 20 pages. …

Last week we talked about creating basic applications with Django. Today let’s try to design a RESTful API with Django.

Prerequisites

Before we start let’s install additional libraries which will help us design API:

pip install djangorestframeworkpip install markdownpip install django-filter

Project Setup

Now let’s make sure that all moving parts of the REST framework libraries are in their places.

In the project folder we have file settings.py. In it there is an array INSTALLED_APPS. Add one more element, ‘rest_framework’, to this array. Also we need to add this dictionary to this file:

REST_FRAMEWORK = {‘DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS’: ‘rest_framework.pagination.PageNumberPagination’,‘PAGE_SIZE’…

Finally we got to the awesome Python framework Django which allows you to use python for developing web applications.

Prerequisites

First ensure that you have python and pip installed. Then let’s install Django:

python -m pip install Django

And check if it’s installed and ready to use:

python -m django — version

If you can see a version of the Django library then you are ready to go.

Project Setup

Now, let’s create new Django project:

django-admin startproject myCoolProject

This command will create a myCoolProject directory in the directory you recently located. And inside it will create this files: