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Re:Tinker with a Neural Network in Your Browser by romaniv on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @11:13AM (#11488841)
>Before deep learning people would manually design all these extra features sin(x_1), x_1^2, etc.

It's probably worth pointing out that this is true for ANNs, but there were (and are) other "shallow" classifiers that can handle swiss roll problem without manual parameter encoding. SVMs, for example.

http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/svmjs/demo/

Re:Tinker with a Neural Network in Your Browser by conceit on Thursday April 14, 2016 @03:50PM (#11499803)
needs another image link for visualization