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From: berry@stsci.EDU (Jim Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: What is the 'bias unit' in BPSIM for?
Message-ID: <339@obi-wan>
Date: 28 Apr 88 21:45:00 GMT
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218
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I recently picked up the sources for bpsim.c and got it running on my 
Amiga (works fine as long as pointers are initialized to NULL).  I 
noticed, however that there is a single 'bias' or 'threshold' unit not 
described in the BYTE article.  Can anyone tell me its purpose?

Thanks a lot.

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