Code refactoring

[SirBob01]

Refactor the code to make it more elegant and optimized (especially for the core algorithm).

[foster999]

Would it be useful for me to replace some of the for loops with numpy matrix-based calculations?

Love the project by the way!

[SirBob01]

Hi @foster999! Thank you for the comment! Yes, it would be nice to finally migrate to numpy. I initially wrote this from scratch to test my understanding of neural networks. But for maintainability's sake, perhaps this would be much better haha!

[foster999]

Excellent @SirBob01, I'll give it a go then! Hoping that working through the code will improve my understanding of them too 😄

[SirBob01]

Hm, I've given this some thought. I don't think it would be possible to use matrix-based calculations for this particular algorithm.

The whole idea is that the nodes are topologically free and can be disabled, shifted, and connected to other nodes randomly. The networks are likely always going to be asymmetric, so I don't know how we could represent them with matrices.