Show HN: A browser-based neural network simulation

http://neurovis.dataphoric.com/index.html

by mcrowe • 11 years ago

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neurovis.dataphoric.com

mcrowe5• 11 years ago

Neural networks are a beautiful concept. They are also beautiful to watch. I created an interactive neural network visualizer and tutorial. It’s a fun way to develop some intuition about neural nets. It was created using vis.js, and a lot of love. Hope you enjoy!

1arity• 11 years ago

that is so cool and a really clear tutorial. does it use three?

mcrowe5• 11 years ago

Glad you enjoyed it! It uses a library called vis.js.

Animats• 11 years ago

That's fun, but the whole point of neural networks is to train them against data, not tweak the weights by hand. Hand-tuning a neural network is not done much - it's like setting raw filter parameters by hand.

niels_olson• 11 years ago

True, but it's useful to get an intuitive understanding quickly. This doesn't go into the various loss functions or neuron types or matrices, just play-with-it level intuition. I bookmarked it under "Research/MachineLearning/Intro"

mcrowe5• 11 years ago

Well said. That's exactly the point: to get "play-with-it level intuition". Even though its not rigorous, I still find it helps.

I am planning on building a simulation of the back-prop algorithm though!

bcherny• 11 years ago

really cool! is the source on github?

kolev• 11 years ago

The guy doesn't have the habit to open-source.

mcrowe5• 11 years ago

Thanks!

Yes. I will be posting the source to github very soon.

mcrowe5• 11 years ago

The source code is now up on github. https://github.com/mcrowe/neurovis

kelheor• 11 years ago

Wow, this is an amazing intro to neural networks, thanks!

Show HN: A browser-based neural network simulation

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