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Mechanism

Hidden layer

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a layer of neurons between input and output that builds its own features

Where it sits

The prism has six jobs across and eight layers down. Its primary cell isrepresent × L1. Hatched cells cannot exist — a GPU does not learn, an institution does not infer.

What must come first — and what it unlocks

Left to right is reading order, derived from the prerequisite_of edges. Nothing here is hand-ordered: the diagram is the graph.

nothing comes first — this is a starting pointHidden layerMultilayer perceptron

Unlocks: Multilayer perceptron

What kind of thing it is — and what it is made of

It is part of: Multilayer perceptron.

Where to read it

The chapter that introduces it, and any chapter that uses it again.

19Learning from Blameact 5 · The Connectionist Turn

Where it comes from

paperLearning Representations by Back-Propagating ErrorsDavid Rumelhart, Geoffrey Hinton, Ronald Williams · 1986

Every connection

All 2 edges touching this node, grouped by relation family — the sections above are highlights from this list. Colours match the relation families inthe atlas.

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Order · 1
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