On this page I am trying to get a simple custom vanilla javascript activation function working for a sequential model without having to create an entire layer.

To customize an entire layer try https://codepen.io/caisq/pen/jdBgwB just need to change tf.loadModel to tf.loadLayersModel unless that has already been updated.

The Original xOr by Matt Cameron was written for NodeJS, his code is at Code
The expected output for xOr input is
[0,0] = ~ 0
[1,0] = ~ 1
[0,1] = ~ 1
[1,1] = ~ 0

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