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/