Neural networking student: step throught the code

[Erik Hansen]

More Input! More Input!

--- Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
wrote:

> Erik Hansen wrote:
> > took a course in Neural networking.
> > the prof said the computer code was too
> "dense"
> > and referred me to verbal passages that made
> no
> > sense
> > at all. in desperation i tried stepping 
> through
> > the code
> > and it all came clear. the equations and
> graphics
> > were intuitive when seen one line of code at
> a
> > time .
> 
> Many years ago I had a subscription to AI
> Magazine, and they ran a good
> many columns by a very talented writer on
> neural networks named Maureen
> Caudill.   She never lacked depth to her
> writings, but somehow managed
> to explain things in ways that even a relative
> neophyte like me could
> understand.
> 
> I've not seen much in the way of web-published
> work from her, but I'm
> sure you could find some of her books through
> your local library.
> 
> In a quick Google for her name I stumbled
> across this item which may be
> worth a look:
> 
> 
>
<http://web.informatik.uni-bonn.de/II/ag-klein/people/zach/benchmarks/NeuralNetTest.java>
> 
> Excerpt:
> 
> * Class NeuralNetTest
> *
> * Aka Back Propagationn Neural Net. This code
> is a modified
> * version of the code that was submitted to
> BYTE Magazine by
> * Maureen Caudill. It accompanied her article
> "Expert Networks,"
> * BYTE, Oct. '91, though that article doesn't
> discuss this type
> * of neural net algorithm in particular. For
> that, see "Back
> * Propagation," BYTE, Oct. '97 by William P.
> Jones and Josiah
> * Hoskins.
> *
> * The author's original heading/comment was as
> follows:
> *
> *  Backpropagation Network
> *  Written by Maureen Caudill
> *  in Think C 4.0 on a Macintosh
> *
> *  (c) Maureen Caudill 1988-1991
> *  This network will accept 5x7 input patterns
> and produce 8 bit
> *  output patterns. The source code may be
> copied or modified
> *  without restriction, but no fee may be
> charged for its use.
> 
> 
> --
>   Richard Gaskin
>   Managing Editor, revJournal
>  
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