Rumelhart, Hinton & Williams, Learning representations by back-propagating errors, Nature 1986 · p. 535, fig. 4 caption

Saturation & the Tolerance WindowWhy the paper counted any output above 0.8 or below 0.2 as correct

The logistic and its slope drag the probe along x

One unit, two inputs x = w₁i₁ + w₂i₂ + θ · learning: Δw = −ε ∂E/∂w

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