MFML 111 - What are all those sigmoid functions for?

Wondering what all those sigmoid functions are for and why you see them all over machine learning? The answer is simple and it has to do with something you'd learn on day 1 of an economics 101 class...
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[@flatflish13]

The opening cracked me up, thanks for sharing

[@sashayakubov6924]

1:17 - at last, someone dared to combine math with ballet dancing!

[@DelandaBaudLacanian]

love it! 💖

[@jeffgraham1389]

“Standard undergraduate logic.” 😂

[@scottscott232]

Dang, it ended, just as the penny was dropping.

[@muhammadsabry6476]

I liked the joke :)