The last time a post like this appeared on HN prompted me to write a gist with a simple neural network in Python (with Numpy). It downloads the MNIST dataset fo

The last time a post like this appeared on HN prompted me to write a gist with a simple neural network in Python (with Numpy). It downloads the MNIST dataset for you, trains a fully connected network on it, prints the accuracy on the validation set and plots the loss. It's pretty verbose with plenty of terms and comments to search the web for if you're interested. https://gist.github.com/stfwn/62e51d86ca4ff155becd3c6a14adf60e https://gist.github.com/stfwn/62e51d86ca4ff155becd3c6a14adf6...