2009/3/9 Øystein Johansen (OJOHANS) <[email protected]>: > Hi again, > > Sorry the delay. The weekends are .... (yeah, you know..)
NP. I spent most of the weekend on Play65 so I think I know what you mean :) > Run to your library and get a book on linear algebra, any book will do. Then > learn the basics of linear algebra. Anton or Lay are good books, or maybe one > of those popular titles including words like "demystified", "dummies" or "24 > hours". Gilbert Strang is also fine, but it way over what you need to get a > basic understanding of neural networks. > > Matrix basics: > - Adding/subtracting > - Multiplying > - Transposing > - Determinants > - Inverting > - Identity matrices > - Basic matrix expressions > > Things you _do_not_ need: > - Eigenvector/eigenvalues > - SVD > - Hermittian matrices > - Different decompositions (QR, Schur, Gram Schmidt etc). > (stop reading before you reach any of these subjects) > > While you're at the library, try to find: > "Understanding Neural Networks And Fuzzy Logic", by Kartalopous, > ISBN:8120316800 > > It's small and well written, does not include hairy details, and give a nice > overview. (However, you need the basic linear algebra). Tell me if you find > this book and I can point out the important chapters. Thanks. I'll try to find a book on & learn a little linear algebra. > Next question: Are you a coder? Do you code anything? Do you want to learn > coding? Any simple experience with any programming language? Pascal in > pre-school? No Pascal in pre-school, but I do write code for a living :) I've read and written code in various incarnations of VB, Delphi, Perl, C, C++ and C#. I don't claim to be an expert though. In terms of algorithms & data structures, I know how to implement the basic stuff like quick sort, binary search, hash tables, linked lists, balanced binary search trees (anderson, not the more complicated r/b trees) and simple finite state machines. Regards, Ralph _______________________________________________ Bug-gnubg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg
