Handouts TNCT
Handouts TNCT
Handouts TNCT
Social networks and neural networks are interrelated Neural Network can be likened in two ways:
concepts because both deal with identifying and tracing
patterns, trends, connection and relations. Social network First, knowledge is acquired by the network from its
looks into the relations of a group of social entities and environment through a learning process.
any information with regard to each actor including the Second, interneuron connection strengths, known as
relations within the network while neural networks synaptic weights, the human brain as a biological neural
develop meaning from complex or inaccurate patterns. network which is made up of a signal. The basic
Neural networks can be considered as an application of computing units of the nervous system are called
the social network analysis because neural networks can neurons or nerve cells. The most common of these
be used to effectively identify connections and relations. classes of cells which are intermixed with neurons in the
It can be utilized to extract patterns and trace trends and central nervous system are the glia or glue cells.
connections that are very complicated for human to
THE PERCEPTRON
process.
The perceptron is invented by Frank Rosenblatt at the
CHARACTERISTICS OF NEURAL NETWORK Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in 1957. A perceptron
Neural Network have three major characteristics. It is the simplest neural network. It is a computational
processes information like the human brain. It is a model of a single neuron. A perceptron is made up of
connectional computer system and it has the ability to one or more inputs, a professor, and a single output. A
learn. perceptron follows the "feed-forward" model.
1. Process information like the human brain - Neural In this model the inputs are sent into the neuron. Then
networks process information like the human brain. It is they are processed and the result are shown in an output
composed of " a large number of highly interconnected (Shiftman,2012). In the diagram below, this means the
processing elements (neurons) working in parallel to network or one neuron reads from left to right: inputs
solve a specific problem. " come in: output goes out.