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A one-hidden-layer multilayer perceptron can be represented as input neurons computing inner products followed by an activation function.

Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sep 2026

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“what if we look at like a, let's say a one hidden layer MLP, very simple.”
“We can view this as effectively every input neuron is like, is this inner product with activation around this. So.”
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