#+title: neural-networks-programming-paradigm

#+date: <2018-05-01>

#+begin_quote
  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.
#+end_quote

Michael Nielsen -
[[http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/about.html][What this book
(Neural Networks and Deep Learning) is about]]

Unrelated to the quote, note that Nielsen's book is licensed under
[[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/deed.en_GB][CC BY-NC]],
so one can build on it and redistribute non-commercially.