Activation functions and it’s types-Which is better?

Anish Singh Walia
7 min readMay 29, 2017

What are Artificial Neural Networks?

Now, I know we all are familiar with what A-NN is but still let me define it for my own satisfaction -It is a very powerful, strong as well as a very complicated Machine Learning technique which mimics a human brain and how it functions.

Like our human brain has millions of neurons in a hierarchy and Network of neurons which are interconnected with each other via Axons and passes Electrical signals from one layer to another called synapses. This is how we humans learn things. Whenever we see, hear,feel and think something a synapse(electrical impulse) is fired from one neuron to another in the hierarchy which enables us to learn , remember and memorize things in our daily life since the day we were born.

Okay , now let’s not get into Biology.

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