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Re:A visual proof that neural nets can approximate any function by throwawaymath on Saturday April 20, 2019 @08:06PM (#19709707)
True, but that was kind of an afterthought of my point. All continuous functions still comprise a vector space.
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Re:A visual proof that neural nets can approximate any function by soVeryTired on Sunday April 21, 2019 @05:44AM (#19711353)
I don't see how that helps?

> A neural network computes linear transformations

They compute a nonlinear function of an affine transform. Neural networks are nonlinear functions.

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