Neural nets for dummies

I've been trying to get a good grasp of the various species of neural net out there, I've seen the neural network zoo and got to understand a bit about what different cell types do. I understand the basic terminology and I'm familiar with programming in general but I feel like there's a gap between this and knowing in simple terms what different architectures do. Like for example a perceptron's function can be summarised as 'recognising'. Does anyone have some …

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