jal@wsu-cs.uucp (Jason Leigh) (03/01/89)
You do not necessarily have to have a machine capapble of forking processes to build Neural Networks, although in some cases the result may be gathered more quickly. But you can write a neural network program on a little Atari or a big Atari for that matter. It depends on the kind of neural network you are trying to implement. Using message ports in neural nets seems a considerable overhead if not a waste since the only data that needs to be passed would be no more than a few bytes. I have build neural networks that solve travelling salesman problems that can be written in BASIC on a pocket computer...
msiskin@shogun.cc.umich.edu (Marc Siskin) (03/02/89)
In article <566@wsu-cs.uucp> jal@cs.wayne.edu (Jason Leigh) writes: > >You do not necessarily have to have a machine capapble of forking >processes to build Neural Networks, although in some cases the result >It depends on the kind of neural network you are trying to implement. >Using message ports in neural nets seems a considerable overhead if >not a waste since the only data that needs to be passed would be no >more than a few bytes. > >I have build neural networks that solve travelling salesman problems >that can be written in BASIC on a pocket computer... According to the publisher of Magellan, it uses some Neural Networking style programming. Since my knowledge of NN is solely based on one rather disjointed talk a year ago at a conference on Language Learning, I can't vouch for how much Magellan supports Neural Net programming. Disclaimer: I am not an employee of Emerald Intellegence or even a satisfied customer of EI. (I do have Magellan though, just haven't had enough time to make up my mind about it). Msiskin@shogun.cc.umich.edu