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Glossary: Calculus for ML

Sigmoid

Also written: σ, logistic function

σ(z) = 1/(1 + e⁻ᶻ), which squashes any score into the range 0 to 1, so it can turn a score into a probability. Its slope is σ(1 - σ).

Where the book teaches it

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