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James McCaffrey explains what neural network activation functions are and why they're necessary, and explores three common activation functions. Understanding neural network activation functions is ...

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Getting started on designing a network is a task of formidable proportions, but all the more so if you are looking to build a secure IT network. Often, IT system administrators are not fully familiar ...

Listen carefully. The top level of the OSI Reference Model and the IETF protocol stack is the application layer. The application layer, however, doesn’t do applications. It provides services such as ...

Network functions virtualization (NFV) enables IT pros to modernize their networks with modular software running on standard server platforms. According to ETSI, the goal of NFV is to transform the ...