A topic that's often very confusing for beginners when using neural networks is data normalization and encoding. Because neural networks work internally with numeric data, binary data (such as sex, ...

These are examples of item-level descriptions, illustrating how encoding works with and without the use of CDATA (a feature of XML 1.0). Each example consists of two lines, the first is an example ...

For example, when using the Keras library, you can encode a binary dependent variable using zero-one encoding in conjunction with logistic sigmoid activation, or you can use one-hot encoding in ...

Because so many engineers today fail to differentiate between encoding and encryption, I cannot stress the importance of the difference between the two. Encoding is not encryption! XOR, for example, ...