between 0 & 1 it's a bounded output between 0 & 1 so one very common use case of the sigmoid function is to when you're dealing with probabilities because probabilities have to also be bounded between 0 & 1 so sigmoids are really useful when you want to output a single number and represent that number as a probability distribution in fact there are many common types of nonlinear activation functions not just the sigmoid but many others that you can use in neural networks and here are some common ones and throughout this presentation you'll find these tensorflow icons like you can