Thread: Artificial Neural Networks

Anyone at all familiar with neural networks? It looks like there is various software available which allows you to fool around with your own. Kind of like your own Pokemon, you train it to do certain things based on certain input of stimuli.

Stuff like predicting the stock market with whatever factors you want to make relevant, like oil or gas prices, market changes, the scores sports games, anything at all. You could even use online dream journal entries.

The beauty about neural nets is the find subtle relations between all those inputs in ways we would never think of. There was one experiment done with a neural net hooked up to a circuit board full of various transistors, capacitors, and various electrical doo dads. The would train it to do various tasks using the components it knew nothing about. It accomplished one of those tasks in a manner that still has electrical engineers baffled to this day, because they can't figure out how it works. According to science, that circuit shouldn't be doing what it does, but it somehow works, and nobody can figure out why or how. Gotta be a web link to that somewhere, but I can't find one at the moment. I have it in a book.

So anyone know anything about setting up neural networks? I haven't really looked at any of the option in detail yet.

This site looks promising. http://www.neural-forecasting.com/

I'd like to see where you can get a cool program where you can mess around with them easily. Know of any?

This is actually what I want to research as a career. In my opinion it's at the top of the list of the greatest remaining scientific mysteries... there is currently pretty much no understanding at all of the very basics of how the neurons of the cerebral cortex work.

There is a free downloadable CD here with everything you need to get started.
http://www.neural-forecasting.com/free_software_cd.htm

This is interesting... I'm checking it out

haha, only like 1 or 2 of those programs run on 64bit vista...

What's neural forecasting?

The only result for it on Google is that site, and that site doesn't explain it.

hmm new age crap anyone ?.. . . ?

Yeah you'll find all your new age crap related needs here:

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...splay.php?f=19

Bye bye.

Thanks !
but not the point

You don't have a point.

Do you not understand some of the big words that are being used here or something? Neural networks are a field of serious scientific study, there is nothing 'new age' about them.

Originally Posted by 12g951ad

hmm new age crap anyone ?.. . . ?

I don't even understand how you can draw a comparison between neural networking and new age hippy crap...

Neural networks are just computational models used to drawing comparisons from data... among other things