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From: fc174103@seas.gwu.edu (Burr)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: PDP BackProp program - problems
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Date: 24 Nov 90 04:28:01 GMT
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I'm trying to use the backprop program that came with the PDP
books (by Rumelhart & McClelland), to train a network to recognize
digits 0 thru 9.  I've done my best to set up the network, template,
pattern and startup files correctly but the program just hangs when
I invoke the training commands (i.e., ptrain or strain).  There are
no error or information messages given.

I've also tried unsuccessfully to recompile the PDP programs with
Microsoft C version 6.0.  If you have done this successfully and have
some helpful hints I would greatly appreciate the info.

Thanks much.