Take a breath

Ok, this has been a lot. Let's pause and take a breath.

It's fine if most of this went over your head. The important thing is to get a sense of the flow of information through the machine.

A number moves forward. Each weight changes how much reaches the next circle and at the end, the price guess is compared to the real price.

If the prediction is wrong, we change the weights to make the next guess better. That's the whole story. The rest is just details.

Play around with the interactive here to get a feel for how the numbers move through the machine.

When you're ready, we'll follow two different weights and see how each one can change the same wrong price.

Ok, this has been a lot. Let's pause and take a breath.

It's fine if most of this went over your head. The important thing is to get a sense of the flow of information through the machine.

A number moves forward. Each weight changes how much reaches the next circle and at the end, the price guess is compared to the real price.

If the prediction is wrong, we change the weights to make the next guess better. That's the whole story. The rest is just details.

Play around with the interactive here to get a feel for how the numbers move through the machine.

When you're ready, we'll follow two different weights and see how each one can change the same wrong price.