going to keep drilling it in you take your inputs you apply a dot product with your weights and you apply a non-linearity it's that simple oh sorry I missed the step you have dot product with your weights add a bias and apply your non-linearity so three steps now let's simplify this type of diagram a little bit I'm gonna remove the bias just for simplicity I'm gonna remove all of the weight labels so now you can assume that every line the weight associated to it and let's say so I'm going to note Z that Z is the