goooood morning vietnam!

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magically a morning person?

if you know me ("if you know me" ☝️🤓), you probably know that i'm not much of a morning person. not to make the reader too privvy to my private information - because this is the internet and not a private instagram account - but uh i often struggle getting to bed on time. i think i'm highkey just staring into a screen for a duration too long before hopping into the sleep pod but last night the screen time was dedicated to reading more about my new perceptron friends and their big brother, sigmoid neurons (both of which i will speak on more momentarily), rather than the usual forty-five minute video essay slop that demands my eyes be glued to the screen. now, that isn't to say this guy doesn't enjoy a good ol' video essay, especially one that pertains to physics or computing because those r still very yummy. i'm only saying that finding something more engaging than active-listening (and watching) a video might've been what knocked me out at a much more reasonable hour and enabled me to wake up at such an hour as well.

while we *are* on the topic of youtubers with yummy videos, i'd like to share any_austin with everyone cus his videos are the [insert good thing] of youtube videos (i was going to say "the foie gras of.." but looked up 'foie gras' and decided that did not sound too yummy anyways). seriously though his videos are so good if you like sislly little detailed analyses of video games or (ACTUAL) larping. okay.

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(almost) perceptrons of purpose 😋

OOH complete sidenote but it is something i've felt as i have been typing these guys up. i HATE how ai chatbots will use emojis every five words because that was MY THING FIRST. now when i am paint my words onto the canvas that is **vim**, and those words happen to contain emojis i feel i am nothing more than an impostor amidst these llms. uh however, halfway thru that last sentence, i decided that i actually don't care bc i am greater than the machine for i have purpose (who is this guy?).

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perceptrons of purpose (real + NOT clickbait + 3AM + is ‘3AM’ a chatGPT token ?)

**PERCEPTRONS** ARE *SO* COOL omg. you guys we're sleeping on perceptrons. while not quite as 'cool' as their younger brother, sigmoid neurons, the argument that said younger brother wouldn't've (😏) been dreampt up without it's predecessor stands. lemme try and break down perceptrons:

(diagram flows from input (left) to output (right))

1. perceptrons take any number of binary (0 or 1) **inputs** (x_i). those inputs can come from *special* **input perceptrons** or from other "regular" perceptrons.
2. aforementioned inputs are paired up with a certain **weight** that determines how "important" the passed input is.
3. perceptrons have a certain **bias** that must be "overcome" in order to change the output of the perceptron
4. (assuming "wx" represents the dot product between the **weight** and **input** vectors) if `wx + b <= 0` then output = 0, understandably, if `wx + b > 0` then output = 1

this is still an explainaiton more abstract than i was aiming to accomplish, but i’ve spent about 45 minutes on this post and am yearning for some reading time. basically: perceptron take inputs, weighs how important each input is, compares the wieghted input (collective) to it’s bias, and “makes a decision” on its output

lots of rambling for what (he kids (like a baby goat (me (goat)))). perceptrons are p cool and are essential in neural networks. sigmoid neurons do similar schtuff butt i haven't read much on em yet sew that's why you get the rant on the "outdated" digital neuron. i can feel this getting less and less coherent as time flies by so, for your sake, i'll end it there.

perceptron cool and will prob be my first project on this site :]

have a splendiferous day, noah :p