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In biologically inspired neural networks, the activation function is usually an abstraction representing the rate of action potential firing in the cell.
In computational networks, the activation function of a node defines the output of that node given an input or set of inputs. A standard computer chip circuit can be seen as a digital network of activation functions that can be ON (1) or OFF (0), depending on input.