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Sigmoid function

Sigmoid function

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Sep 23, 2026

Lance WallnauHOST
16:55
So let me talk about some practical business that fits the model of what's behind my head here.
Lance WallnauHOST
17:02
It's called the sigmoid curve.
Lance WallnauHOST
17:04
It's an interesting illustration, and it has to do with all lives have a tendency to grow, plateau, and decline.
Lance WallnauHOST
17:13
That's the arc of your physical body.
Lance WallnauHOST
6:33
China wants us to serve China like Hong Kong serves China.
Lance WallnauHOST
6:38
But with these scenarios that I'm talking about, You run into the sigmoid curve.
Lance WallnauHOST
6:44
Let's talk about the sigmoid curve.
Lance WallnauHOST
6:46
Sigmoid curve is a business model that says that in the life cycle of anything, it rises, it rises.
Lance WallnauHOST
6:52
This is going to be, we'll call this fruit.
Lance WallnauHOST
6:55
I'll put a big grape thing here.
Lance WallnauHOST
7:01
Time.
Lance WallnauHOST
7:02
This is going to be time.
speaker_5HOST
14:00
We use activation functions to bend the output.
speaker_5HOST
14:03
Historically, one of the first ones used was the sigmoid function.
speaker_4HOST
14:05
Sigmoid.
speaker_5HOST
14:06
It takes any input number, no matter how huge or how negative, and mathematically squashes it into an S-shaped curve between 0 and 1.
speaker_4HOST
14:14
OK, so a massive input becomes something close to a one and a huge negative input gets squashed down to almost zero.

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