If anybody else is interested in doing something similar, I highly recommend Michael Nielsen's online book: Neural Networks and Deep Learning[1]. He gives reall

If anybody else is interested in doing something similar, I highly recommend Michael Nielsen's online book: Neural Networks and Deep Learning[1]. He gives really good explanations and some code examples. I ended up writing the most basic feed-forward network in C[2]; although I didn't use base libs like Carmack :( [1] http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap1.html http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap1.html [2] https://github.com/cluoma/nn_c2 https://github.com/cluoma/nn_c2