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24 alternatives to I wrote my first Neural Network

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I wrote my first Neural Network launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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I wrote my first neural network▲6
I have been interested in neural nets since the 90's. I've done quite a bit of reading, but never gotten around to writing code. I used Gemini in place of Wikipedia to fill in the gaps of my knowledge. The coolest part of this was learning about dual numbers. You can see in early commits that I did not yet know about auto-diff; I was thinking I'd have to integrate a CAS library or something. Now, I'm off to play with TensorFlow.
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Sonnet▲134
A new library for constructing neural networks from DeepMind
2017 · deepmind.google · its alternatives →
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I Invented a New Machine Learning Algorithm▲5
2024 · medium.com · its alternatives →
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I built a game to help you learn neural network architectures▲321
2024 · graphgame.sabrina.dev · its alternatives →
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I created a Neural Network from scratch, in scratch▲7
I spent the past week implementing a 1 Layer Neural Net and training it on MNIST within the visual scripting language provided by scratch.mit.edu. It was tedious, but ultimately not too difficult. The code runs incredibly slowly, so much so that 64 samples of MNIST takes 5+ hours to train on my machine. There were a lot of little mini challenges that were fun to overcome (implementing softmax was very tricky). If you're interested, I encourage you to try and improve on it! More details in the linked blog post.
2024 · bell-boy.github.io · its alternatives →
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Make Your Own Neural Network▲6
An In-depth Visual Introduction For Beginners
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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I made a 5 hour neural networks class with no prerequisites▲17
2017 · neuralnetsforhackers.teachable.com · its alternatives →
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A Visual and Interactive Guide to the Basics of Neural Networks▲63
Discussions: Hacker News (63 points, 8 comments), Reddit r/programming (312 points, 37 comments) Translations: Arabic, French, Spanish Update: Part 2 is now live: A Visual And Interactive Look at Basic Neural Network Math Motivation I’m not a machine learning expert. I’m a software engineer by train
2016 · jalammar.github.io · its alternatives →
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Seeking Wisdom With David Cancel - The Secret To Becoming A Learning Machine▲67
The only shortcut David's learned after 5 startups? Learning
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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I'm 15 and built a neural network from scratch in C++,just math▲8
I’m 15 and self-taught. I'm learning ML from scratch because I want to really understand how things work. I’m not into frameworks. I prefer math, logic, and C++. I implemented a basic MLP that supports different activation and loss functions. It was trained via mini-batch gradient descent. I wrote it from scratch, using no external libraries except Eigen (for linear algebra). I learned how a Neural Network learns (all the math) -- how the forward pass works, and how learning via backpropagation works. How to convert all that math into code. I’ll write a blog soon explaining how MLPs work in…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The Math of Neural Networks▲5
A Visual Introduction For Beginners
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Make Your Own Neural Network▲7
The Mathematics of Neural Networks
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Training Neural Networks with a Single Unix Pipeline▲5
A Command-Line Program of Feedforward Neural Networks - dongyx/lnn
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Marching neural network▲8
Visualizing level surfaces of a neural network
2017 · arogozhnikov.github.io · its alternatives →
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Inside a Neural Network▲13
An introduction to building a basic feedforward neural network with backpropagation in Python.
2018 · enlight.nyc · its alternatives →
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TensorFlow▲3
A Neural Network Playground
2016 · playground.tensorflow.org · its alternatives →
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I built an 11-LLM consensus engine to detect AI hallucination▲6
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I solved a 12yr math problem using AI (formalized; awaiting review) [pdf]▲5
Sep 2026 · raw.githubusercontent.com · its alternatives →
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I wrote a book about Grokking Deep Learning▲5
Build neural networks from scratch and truly understand deep learning!
2019 · manning.com · its alternatives →
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I built an online programming language▲8
2023 · lineone.dev · its alternatives →
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I've trained my neural network to play Tinder▲10
The video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohs6sgmVNYI This video is a prof of concept. I always wanted to see if I could make my Neural Network play tinder for me. So I gather some pictures, created a fake tinder app (so I don't expose real people) and began the training. For this experiment I'm using scrcpy to control my cellphone and pyautogui alongside my neural network. The script is very simple: Get the image, run it trough a neural network, move the mouse to the output (yes or no) and click. There's a lot of hard coded things in my code, but as I said earlier,…
2019 · its alternatives →
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PyTorch▲5
Tensors and dynamic neural networks in Python
2017 · pytorch.org · its alternatives →
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A simple neural network in Octave to solve the XOR problem▲5
Getting started with neural networks can seem to be a daunting prospect, even if you have some programming experience. The many examples on the Internet dive straight into the mathematics of what the neural network is doing or are full of jargon that can make it a little difficult to understand what
2016 · aimatters.wordpress.com · its alternatives →
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I built a Python course on the learning platform made for developers▲7
2021 · slip.so · its alternatives →

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