How to calculate a logistic sigmoid function in Python?

Question

This is a logistic sigmoid function:

I know x. How can I calculate F(x

Answer 1

A numerically stable version of the logistic sigmoid function.

    def sigmoid(x):
        pos_mask = (x >= 0)
        neg_mask = (x < 0)
        z = np.zeros_like(x,dtype=float)
        z[pos_mask] = np.exp(-x[pos_mask])
        z[neg_mask] = np.exp(x[neg_mask])
        top = np.ones_like(x,dtype=float)
        top[neg_mask] = z[neg_mask]
        return top / (1 + z)