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Yay! It's done! | by Arcanum | 2001-11-07 10:48:59 |
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Are | by mirage | 2001-11-07 12:08:57 |
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by egaeus |
2001-11-07 13:50:26 |
A friend recommended this to me as a fairly understandable book. It seems readable to me so far, but I don't know what level you're at. Anyway, it's Fuzzy and Neural Approaches in Engineering ISBN 0471160032. Also, the textbook I used in Neural Networks was pretty easy to understand, very step-by-step, but it's only on NN's. It's Fundamentals of Neural Networks ISBN 0133341860. Both of the books are about $100 new, but a decent university library would have them.
If you're just concerned with games and the like, then in the NN book, you only need to learn up to the perceptrons (Ch. 3 I think), and then you can go on the the backprop algorithms and skip the adaptive filters and such. We didn't get into Hebbian algorithms, so I can't guide you there.
Neural Networks is a great field-very interesting. The hardest part about NN's is training them. Basic backpropagation algorithms are fairly easy to program for some problems (my class project learned to count cards in blackjack), but it's not always a simple task to teach it what you want because you have to tell it what's right. In something like chess, it would be hard to decide on the "right" move, so it is a more challenging problem.
Have fun. If you're a programmer, you will probably love NN's. I don't know much about Fuzzy Logic and GA's yet, but so far it's pretty cool as well. Just hope I think so *after* my thesis is finished;) |
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Ok, I | by mirage | 2001-11-07 16:51:38 |
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One of the neat things about | by Arcanum | 2001-11-07 17:26:13 |
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