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A last glimpse into what it is like to live in our home in 2017 Intentional Outdoor Hours:  523 hours (of 1000) So, I'm calling it. 523 hours of 1000 for the year - over half way to my goal and beat last year's attempt by 13 hours. So, I'm moving in the right direction, but I know that I can do better and I'm still striving for that lofty goal of 1000 hours for the year. Shoot for the moon, right? Reading  and finishing my Christmas Santa's workshop gift from Greyson:  Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz Ryan  which brings me up to 11 new-to-me books this year read. I'm about 100 pages short of finishing my 100 small things goal of 12 books read! Hah, only a little bit more to finish in  Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott  and I'm there, so I've been squeezing in quick stints for the past two days (among the incredible to do list I have) to try to cross that one off before we ring in the new year! Doing all the celebrating  possible in the past week... Mimi's Chris

The multilayer perceptron is one of the most popular neural network approach for supervised learning, and that it was very effective if we know to determine the number of neurons in the hidden layers. In this tutorial, we will try to explain the role of neurons in the hidden layer of the multilayer perceptron (when we have one hidden layer). Using an artificial toy dataset, we show the behavior of the classifier when we modify the number of neurons. We work with Tanagra in a first step. Then, we use R (nnet package) to create a program to determine automatically the right number of neurons into the hidden layer. Keywords : neural network, perceptron, multilayer perceptron, MLP Components : MULTILAYER PERCEPTRON, FORMULA Tutorial :  Configuration of a MLP Dataset : artificial2d.zip References : Tanagra Tutorials, " Single layer and multilayer perceptron (slides) ", September 2014. Tanagra Tutorials, " Multilayer perceptron - Software comparison ", November 2008.

A glimpse into what it is like to live in our home just this minute. that's a chicken finger he's eating..in the tub...with a diaper on   Intentional Outdoor Hours :  523 hours (of 1000) same. no change. bleh. Reading and finishing  The Nix by Nathan Hill , reccomended from me with high reviews. Just an incredible writer - so many times I had to pause let the words and sentences sink in before moving on. So so good.  I had library duty for an hour and half on Friday at school during our Pickleball tournament day and so I picked up Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon off the shelf to pass the time. Affter my library stint was over, I had already read about a third of the book, so I check it out and finished it...that day.  Very cute and I loved the way the illustrations were sprinkled throughout (wife author and husband illustrator duo!). It was an easy read (and a little predictable) but enjoyable. Spreading some kindness in our neighborhood with little notes to say thank yo

A glimpse into what it is like to live in our home just this minute.   Intentional Outdoor Hours: 523 hours (of 1000) Racked up enough minutes to reach one hour more this week. If it wasn't bitter cold, it was snowing so I was pretty lame this week. Reading The Nix by Nathan Hill and devouring it. I'm at the point where doing anything but reading my book is annoying (hahah, holiday to do list can wait apparently...um no) and I just want to finish the book and get the full story. Almost there!  My full Christmas wishlist is books and my family continues to call me boring to which I shrug and smile. #nerdforever High-fiving Grey and Chum after their successful hunt on Saturday morning. They harvested a doe and Grey helped drag it all the way into the yard and was so proud. He loved repeating the story to everyone. The kid is hooked and a redneck through and through. Celebrating Greyson while he made his first reconciliation at church on Saturday. He was so nervous leading up to