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+> Neural networks are one of the most beautiful programming paradigms ever invented. In the conventional approach to programming, we tell the computer what to do, breaking big problems up into many small, precisely defined tasks that the computer can easily perform. By contrast, in a neural network we don't tell the computer how to solve our problem. Instead, it learns from observational data, figuring out its own solution to the problem at hand.
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+Michael Nielsen - [What this book (Neural Networks and Deep Learning) is about](http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/about.html)
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+Unrelated to the quote, note that Nielsen's book is licensed under [CC BY-NC](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/deed.en_GB), so one can build on it and redistribute non-commercially.