# Flashlight
[](https://github.com/Bejmach/flashlight/actions/workflows/rust.yml)
[](https://crates.io/crates/flashlight)
> Package currently in development, so if you can, use something else
## Already done
- Neural network structure
- forward propagation
- cost
- backpropagation values(not tested)
## To do
- use backpropagation values to train model
- saving and loading the model
## Dependencies
[flashlight_tensor](https://crates.io/crates/flashlight_tensor)
[Rand](https://crates.io/crates/rand)
## Why the name "Flashlight"
Before I decided on the name, I wanted to use some mythology reference, because I assumed that the "Torch" library based its name on Prometheus myth, but it didn't click.
Some time after that, I thought to myself "Why base the name on some mythical meaning of stuff, when I can refer to them literally.", and that's when I came up with three name ideas for project: "**Lamp**", "**Bulb**" and "**Flashlight**", and well... I decided on "Flashlight" because It sounded the **goofiest** of them all.
Sure, I could've tried to justify it with something like, "*Flashlight is written in Rust and Torch is written In C, so Flashlight is safer, like how flashlights are safer than torches...*" but I would be lying if I did. I decided on that name **because it was funny**, and I didn’t think it would actually fit the project — but here we are, and now it feels like the perfect name.
I hope you had a good time reading this short story of myself. I just rly wanted to include that in the readme, so deal with it.