Chapter 2 – Building a Reward Matrix – Designing Your Datasets
- Raw data can be the input to a neuron and transformed with weights. (Yes | No)
The answer is yes if the data is in numerical format. If it is in a proper numerical format, the input can be multiplied by the weights and biases.
If the data is not in a numerical format, then it requires a numerical encoding phase.
- Does a McCulloch-Pitts neuron require a threshold? (Yes | No)
The answer is yes. Adding up weights does not mean much if you do not have something to measure the value. It took months of work for McCulloch and Pitt to put this together. At first, time was in the equation, just like it is in our brain. But then, like Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), they found cycles that repeated themselves—periods that did not require much more than that neuron.
Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts invented the first neuron and published a paper in 1943...
