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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Training
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Date: 20 Mar 89 20:21:02 GMT
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In article <2698@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> spam@clutx.clarkson.edu writes:
>Has anyone come up with a good way to train a net
>without knowing a "target" in advance?
[...]
>All the learning methods I've studied so far
>are inadequate for this.

Sounds like good ol' negative reinforcement to me.

You could send it to a Zen Buddhist monastery, or an English public
school...

Have you tried just getting a degree in education and coding it?

				--Blair
				  "...using C--, the 'Object-Lesson' C..."

P.S.  8-D