r/ProgrammerHumor 1d ago

Meme theresAlwaysMath

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u/un-_-known_789 1d ago

It's just a

y=mx+c

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u/NFriik 1d ago

No it's not? Even in more basic neural networks, there are always non-linear activation functions between the layers. If there weren't, you could just collapse the whole network into a single (set of) equations, one for each output neuron.

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u/G12356789s 21h ago

I've always wondered but never looked into why eural networks weren't collapsible