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Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier by mhermher on Friday April 06, 2018 @03:30PM (#16776586)
not an expert, but aren't the output nodes thresholded to make a decision? How far you are from the threshold might be interpretable as confidence possibly?
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Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier by xapata on Friday April 06, 2018 @04:34PM (#16777148)
For a single perceptron, not for the network as a whole.
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Re:Another Tesla on autopilot steers towards a barrier by CardenB on Friday April 06, 2018 @08:44PM (#16778756)
Yep that's exactly what you would do.

However, in practice, this usually is just not a good indicator of confidence. NNs are notoriously overconfident.

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