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For questions related to the selection of and theory behind specific activation functions used in artificial networks.

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Why is there a sigmoid function in the hidden layer of a neural network? [duplicate]

I got this slide from CMU's lecture notes. The $x_i$s on the right are inputs and the $w_i$s are weights that get multiplied together then summed up at each hidden layer node. So I'm assuming this i …
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