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Sep 10, 2025 10 min

Neural Networks

from Nerd Adjacent Hosted by Chris Rouman

Neural networks are the brain-inspired tech behind everything from image recognition to music-generating AIs. In this post, we break down how they learn, what makes them powerful, and why they’re not quite human—but still surprisingly clever. 2017 study mentioned in the episode Esteva, A., Kuprel, B., Novoa, R. A., et al. (2017). Dermatologist-level classification of skin cancer with deep neural networks. Nature, 542(7639), 115–118. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature21056 ___ Episode Music by Eric Lund.

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