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Derivative of sigmoid function $\sigma (x) = \frac{1}{1+e^{-x}}$

Bryan Glazer · 2011
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In my AI textbook there is this paragraph, without any explanation. The sigmoid function is defined as follows $$\sigma (x) = \frac{1}{1+e^{-x}}.$$ This function is easy to differentiate because $$\frac{d\sigma (x)}{d(x)} = \sigma (x)\cdot (1-\sigma(x)).$$ It has been a long time since I've taken differential equations, so could anyone tell me how they got from the first equation to the second?
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