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The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python (opens in new tab)

I think it should be quite obvious that perceptrons are far from the smallest units that are capable of learning. They store many bytes of information, require a non-local update process, need numeric (i.e. symbolic) inputs and involve relatively complex computations. You can go much simpler. For example:

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