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Weights Energies Probabilities
Each possible joint configuration of the visible and
hidden units has a Hopfield “energy”
 The energy is determined by the weights and biases.
The energy of a joint configuration of the visible and
hidden units determines the probability that the network
will choose that configuration.
By manipulating the energies of joint configurations, we
can manipulate the probabilities that the model assigns
to visible vectors.
This gives a very simple and very effective learning
algorithm.