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You see Neural Nets Wrong

August 29, 2025

I always after learning Neural Networks would forget how exactly did they work, now I realize why

Neural network (machine learning ...

its because of this image, this representation is flawed.

  1. it forces you to think in scalars and becomes very confusing when you take this mental model to vectors

  2. there is no description where the learnable parameters lie, so never think in this image.

here is a better way to think

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