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From: styri@cs.hw.ac.uk (Yu No Hoo)
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Subject: Re: NN Benchmarks
Summary: 2 out of 3 problem
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Date: 2 Jun 91 20:37:54 GMT
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Sorry for waisting bandwidth on a triviality, but...

In article <98464@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> loren@dweasel.llnl.gov (Loren Petrich) writes:
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>	Here is a list of benchmarks for NN's that I have learned of.
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>  [stuff deleted]
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>	2 out of 3: if correct, return true, otherwise, return false.
>This seems like a linear problem.

Nope, the 2 out of 3 should return true *iff* 2 out of 3 inputs are true.
Try it, it's not a linear problem - the best set of perceptron weights gives
only 7 correct classifications of the 8 possible.

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