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From: ssingh@watserv1.waterloo.edu ($anjay "lock-on" $ingh - Indy Studies)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Laymans info. on NN
Keywords: Neural networks interested keywords!
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Date: 5 Feb 90 05:10:16 GMT
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Another question that has gone unanswered since I began studying NNs. I have
been to two tutorials, one by Rumelhart and Sejnowski, and the other by
Hinton, and both imply that all the mathematics needed to make an
original contribution to NN work is simple calculus. Is this really
the case? If not, where is a good primer for preparing a reader from
a mathematical standpoint to model biological networks. Anyone who
has seen Neural and Brain Modelling (R.J. Macgregor, 1987 Academic
Press) would agree that there is some daunting mathematics in there.

Thank you.


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