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- The new NEURAL21.ZIP contains:
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- 1. A better SLUG3 windows Backprop app and
- 2. The user manual for the Neural Networks Toolkit,
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- and is now available from at least
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- garbo.uwasa.fi in windows/artificial
- oak.oakland.edu in pub/msdos/neurlnet
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- What is the Toolkit ?
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- The Southern Scientific Neural Networks Toolkit is for Pascal
- programmers. It is intended to form the basis for NN designs
- ranging from the conventional to the bizarre. To do this, the
- Toolkit was designed using OOP techniques, keeping absolute
- flexibility in mind, containing the basic objects and methods
- which are likely to occur in any architecture, but still
- providing the freedom to try out new insights and ideas with a
- minimum of programming. It is assumed that the user of this
- product understands OOP techniques as implemented in Borland
- Pascal, is familiar with basic linear algebra, can produce
- derivatives of simple functions and has read basic literature on
- Backpropagation Neural Networks. The Toolkit is independent of
- Windows and DOS, that is, you can use it in both environments.
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- What it contains
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- The Toolkit comes in 4 main parts, implemented as Turbo Pascal
- units, and includes some utilities :
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- The basic unit, NNunit, containing the 'grandfather' Neuron and
- Neuralnet objects, from which the user produces descendants
- suitable for a specific design. Source code is available
- separately.
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- The dynamic matrices and vectors unit, Dyna2, which contains
- objects to deal with the connections between neurons, and
- provides, as an added bonus, tools for numerical analysis
- applications which require dynamic matrix data structures.
- Source code is available separately.
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- The Backpropagation unit, BPNet2, implements a standard
- backpropagation network, and provides an example of the use of
- the objects in the first two units. Source is provided.
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- The Brainmaker unit, Brain, provides access to the structure and
- weights of a network trained with Brainmaker, a popular product
- from California Scientific (no relation). Source is provided.
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- A good windows Backprop application, SLUG3.EXE, with source,
- to illustrate the use of the Toolkit. Use the helpfile for
- information on how to use SLUG3. You should also look at
- DOSDEMO2.PAS for a quick look at how easy it is to make a
- backprop net work with the Toolkit.
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- Several other small utilities.
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- What it costs:
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- US$89. Source code is US$199.
- Specials are offered from time to time
- Ordering info in the SLUG3 help file.
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- Regards
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- Charles Marais