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RL 6: Pleasure-Seeking Neurons and the Birth of Backpropagation (1972–1980)
Community description: Quick recap from Blog 5: Learning Automata could adapt to what was happening right now, but they were...
Dev.to | Oct 10, 2026 | Mitansh Gor
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Weight: how much the neuron "listens" to one particular input. A network stacks layers: input -> hidden layers -> output. Backprop needs to be tied explicitly to temporal credit assignment (credit across time).
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