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- From: prechelt@i41s14.ira.uka.de (Lutz Prechelt)
- Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
- Subject: Frequently Asked Questions -- weekly reminder
- Supersedes: <nn_remind.posting_721790882@i41s14.ira.uka.de>
- Followup-To: comp.ai.neural-nets
- Date: 22 Nov 1992 01:27:05 GMT
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Expires: 6 Dec 1992 01:28:02 GMT
- Message-ID: <nn_remind.posting_722395682@i41s14.ira.uka.de>
- Reply-To: prechelt@ira.uka.de (Lutz Prechelt)
- NNTP-Posting-Host: i41s18.ira.uka.de
- Keywords: FAQ, answers, monthly posting, reference, pointer
- Originator: prechelt@i41s18
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- Last-modified: 92/03/30
-
- This is a reminder for the existence of a monthly posting to the
- Usenet newsgroup comp.ai.neural-nets. The posting is called
- FAQ in comp.ai.neural-nets
- where FAQ stands for 'Frequently Asked Questions'.
-
- Its purpose is to provide basic information for individuals who are
- new to the field of neural networks or are just beginning to read this
- group. It shall help to avoid lengthy discussion of questions that usually
- arise for beginners of one or the other kind.
-
-
- >>>>> SO, PLEASE, SEARCH THIS POSTING FIRST IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION <<<<<
-
- AND
-
- >>>>> DON'T POST ANSWERS TO FAQs: POINT ASKERS TO THE FAQ POSTING <<<<<
-
-
- The FAQ posting departs to comp.ai.neural-nets on the 28th of every month.
- It is also sent to the group news.answers where it should be available
- at any time (ask your news manager).
- This reminder is posted every Sunday.
-
- The FAQ posting is archived in the periodic posting archive on
- "pit-manager.mit.edu" [18.172.1.27] (and on some other hosts as well).
- Look in the anonymous ftp directory "/pub/usenet/news.answers",
- the filename is 'neural-net-faq'.
-
- If you do not have anonymous ftp access, you can access the archive
- by mail server as well. Send an E-mail message to
- mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu with "help" and "index" in the body on
- separate lines for more information.
-
- The following questions are answered in the FAQ posting:
-
- (Please have a look at the conventions in Answer 1 at least)
-
- ============================== Questions ==============================
-
- 1.) What is this newsgroup for ? How shall it be used ?
- 2.) What is a neural network (NN) ?
- 3.) What can you do with a Neural Network and what not ?
- 4.) Who is concerned with Neural Networks ?
-
- 6.) What does 'backprop' mean ?
- 7.) How many learning methods for NNs exist ? Which ?
- 8.) What about Genetic Algorithms ?
-
- 10.) Good introductory literature about Neural Networks ?
- 11.) Any journals and magazines about Neural Networks ?
- 12.) The most important conferences concerned with Neural Networks ?
- 13.) Neural Network Associations ?
- 14.) Other sources of information about NNs ?
-
- 15.) Public-Domain software packages for NN simulation ?
- 16.) Commercial software packages for NN simulation ?
- 17.) Neural Network hardware ?
-
- 19.) Databases for experimentation with NNs ?
-
- ========================================================================
-
- Lutz
-
- --
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