Conclave

Many people hate on the Catholic Church for a variety of reasons. Ultimately, the reason for the hate can be traced to the failings of people and not the core of faith itself. Despite these failings, we have to acknowledge that the Church accomplished a great deal of good, including guiding Christianity, western civilization even, through some of its darkest periods.

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Preprocessing Images For Recognition

We have previously through the process of recognizing numbers utilizing our artificial neural network (ANN). If you haven’t gone through that post on, you can do so now. However, we ran the recognition task on images from the MNIST dataset. Even though we used the test data, it’s still cannot be considered real-world. It’s clean, well-labeled, and structured, with a lot of the noise and ambiguity removed.

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