001-EX Nature 1

Description: SCP-001 is the ERZATZ Type AK9 Computational Engine^4 constructed by the Foundation in 1955. It was built to provide predictive analysis regarding the location and properties of undiscovered anomalies. It accomplishes this via use of a multi-layer perceptron^5 relying upon training datasets derived from the location and properties of previous anomalies. This application of a multi-layer perceptron as an effective predictive model was only made possible by an advanced backpropagation algorithm developed by several ex-employees of Prometheus Labs (acquired by the Foundation's Department of Analytics in 1951).

Footnote 4. The ERZATZ Type AK9 Computation Engine is a digital, general-purpose computer with Turing-complete specifications.

Footnote 5. A multi-layer perceptron (MLP) is a 'feed-forward' computation system consisting of three or more layers of nodes: an input (or 'top') layer, one or more hidden (or 'middle') layers, and an output (or 'bottom') layer. The nodes of each layer are connected to all nodes on the layer below via directed edges. The perceptron accepts a value in its input layer, then directs and transforms this value as it traverses each successive layer until it produces an output.

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