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📙 Understanding Neural Networks

From Writing if-else Code to Training AI Models

You've been building web apps for years. Then AI showed up and nothing quite made sense anymore. How can you get computers to code, write poetry, or draw images based on text prompts?

Yes, I totally understand you! In the winter of 2022 - after the release of ChatGPT - I spent countless weeks trying to discover how these things work under the hood.

This is a book for JavaScript web developers who want to understand AI — not just use it.

After twenty years of traditional web development, it completely blew my mind to discover that computers could learn from examples instead of following hand-written instructions. In Neural Networks, logic lives in weights, not lines of code.


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Think of Neural Networks as the Assembler of AI. Understanding them will bring you one step closer to demystifying the black box of AI Models.

What you'll get:

  • Timeless knowledge. The foundational Artificial Neuron Model paper was published in 1943. Still relevant today. That's the Lindy effect at work — knowledge this old has proven it's here to stay.
  • A learning map. We will build neural networks from scratch using pure JavaScript. One small step at a time. No magic. Curated examples, in the right order, that build on each other until the whole thing clicks.
  • A new mental model. Training models is a coding paradigm. Logic lives in weights, not carefully hand-crafted lines of if-else code. These probabilistic systems have different principles we need to master.
  • Increase your knowledge portfolio. One of my favorite chapters from The Pragmatic Programmer is Your Knowledge Portfolio. Learning investments work just like buying stocks. Mastering the fundamentals of AI models is like buying BRK shares. It will be there for a long time to provide a steady return.

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About the author

Hi there, friend! I’m Daniel. I believe education is the key to creating a better, more stable, and richer world! Driven by this belief, I started a podcast, wrote two books, and have consistently updated this site for the past seven years. Since 2005, I have built software for companies such as Skillshare, Tradeshift, and ING.

Few things have impressed me as much as seeing ChatGPT in action. Since that moment, I’ve focused all my attention on LLMs and LangChain. After nearly two decades in software development, it feels like I’m learning how to code all over again.