warning: this is an extremely simplified explanation. if you want to delve deeper, there are excellent resources like Andrew Ng’s Deep Learning Specialization or Neural Networks from Scratch in Python. this is a neural network. you’ve likely seen one before and have, at least, a vague idea of what it does : it learns. what you may not know is that they can be thought of as universal function approximators. that might seem abstract to you, so let’s look at the definition of a function: In mathema...