How to build a simple neural network in 9 lines of Python code

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:

> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 5:34 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
>> What would *not* be cheating? A language without a library would be
>> dead.
>
> Sure, but there are different levels of cheating. Using a
> general-purpose programming language and its standard library isn't
> usually considered cheating, but using a language or library that's
> specifically designed for this purpose is less about "hey look how
> simple this is" and more about "hey look how awesome this lang/lib
> is". Which is a perfectly reasonable thing to brag; Python is
> beautifully expressive in the general case, but there are some amazing
> tools for special purposes.
>
> So I wouldn't call it cheating; it's a demonstration of the
> expressiveness of numpy.

You saw the APL example, right? APL's standard runtime/library contains
most of Numpy functionality because that's what APL has been designed
for.

Is that cheating?


Marko