Watching Neural Networks Learn

A video about neural networks, function approximation, machine learning, and mathematical building blocks. Dennis Nedry did nothing wrong. This is a submission for #SoME3 My Links Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emergentgarden Discord: https://discord.gg/ZsrAAByEnr Links and Content: On Mathematical Maturity, Thomas Garrity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHU1xH6Ogs4 Earth Rotation Loop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiQdLP2mBJE Modeling Shell Surfaces: https://www.geogebra.org/m/xtv7zpn5 Fourier Features Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10739 Code for mandelbrot/image approximations: https://github.com/MaxRobinsonTheGreat/mandelbrotnn Code for line/surface approximations: https://github.com/MaxRobinsonTheGreat/ManimApproximations Music: https://youtube.com/@acolyte-compositions Timestamps (0:00) Functions Describe the World (3:15) Neural Architecture (5:35) Higher Dimensions (11:55) Taylor Series (15:20) Fourier Series (21:25) The Real World (24:32) An Open Challenge