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Lightweight Neural Network ++ 0.995
05/09/2004 07:57 PMA feed forward neural network C++ library.
Async Neural Network
Async Neural Network
11/11/2003 05:49 AMANNOUNCEMENT! Cells Side Project
Neural Network Utility
Neural Network Utility
10/30/2003 01:42 PMv1.8 Development
Neural Network Teaching Aid
Neural Network Teaching Aid
05/25/2004 02:44 PMInitiation
Fast Artifical Neural Network Library
1.0.4
Fast Artifical Neural Network Library
1.0.4
12/11/2003 08:31 AMA multi-layer feedforward neural network library implemented in ANSI
C.
Fast Artifical Neural Network Library
Fast Artifical Neural Network Library
11/03/2003 07:46 AM(fann) - Minor bug, bugfix to be released soon.
Ideas Born from a Dieing Neural Network?
Ideas Born from a Dieing Neural Network?
02/10/2004 03:00 AMThe Washington Post has an extremely interesting article about
Stephen Thaler's Creativity Machine. The Creativity Machine is a new
kind
of Neural Network from Imagination Engines, Inc. Basically, it's like
you
take a
Neural Network and fully train it, then you go back and randomly kill
off a few
nodes until it starts to hallucinate causing it to have a sort of near
death experience. Either it will go off on a
really bad trip, or it might cause it to have an imagination and
generate something new like the works of Shakespeare (as if that were
a new thing). Apparently, by killing off a
few neurons it causes some Neural Nets to go noisy and perhaps start
thinking and figuring out new ideas? I'm not sure I believe it, but
it seems Steven Thaler figured out that by doing
this new technique and forcing anomolies, all sorts of new innovative
ideas and dreams can be born like harder substances than diamonds and
bad christmas
carols, or perhaps even the recipe for mom's pudding and the answer to
everything before they can shut it off. With all of these new deep
thoughts being generated, one could wish that they could come up with
the right questions
for the answers it gives (hey, that's sort of like Jeopardy). For that
matter what would a neural net's dieing wish be? (BTW, happy love
your robot day - Feb 7th!)
Fast Artifical Neural Network Library
1.0.3
Fast Artifical Neural Network Library
1.0.3
12/10/2003 06:41 PMA multi-layer feedforward neural network library implemented in ANSI
C.
Neural.it
Neural.it
12/17/2004 06:33 PMTo coincide with
Italy's launch of
their own Creative Commons licenses, I've gotten word that 5000
pages on
neural.it will be licensed.
More on the Italy launch event later.
New issue of Neural
New issue of Neural
05/11/2004 10:37 AMThe new issue of Italian tech/art/culture magazine Neura is out. It
looks to be another dense collection of articles about edgy
hacktivisim, electronic music, and digital art, including pieces on
musician Ryoji Ikeda and anti-corporate activist Brian Holmes.
Neural.it
intervie
wed Mark way back in 1994!
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AI Neural Networks
AI Neural Networks
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20Q.net - 20 Questions - The Neural-Net
on the Internet
20Q.net - 20 Questions - The Neural-Net
on the Internet
07/08/2004 05:18 AM20Q.net - 20 Questions - The Neural-Net on the
Internethttp://www.20q.net/20Q.net
is an experiment in artificial intelligence. The program is very
simple but its behavior is complex. Everything that it knows and all
questions that it asks were entered by people playing this game.
20Q.net is a learning system; the more it is played, the smarter it
gets. This has been added to
Artificial Intelligence
Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
The Internet Meets the Neural Net
The Internet Meets the Neural Net
07/26/2004 12:35 AMEvolution of Artificial Neural Networks
Evolution of Artificial Neural Networks
11/14/2003 04:06 PMMeet Annevolve's skydiving, mouseball collecting Unix Admin
Neural Net Framework 0.2 (Default
branch)
Neural Net Framework 0.2 (Default
branch)
04/18/2005 12:50 PM
NNF is a library written in plain C that
implements multilayer feed-forward neural
networks. It's fast and easy to incorporate in
your own application. It includes different
activation functions and the delta error
back-propagation algorithm. Saving and loading
routines are included. It is released under the
Lesser General Public License.
Changes:
The learning algorithms were completed for all the
respective activation functions. Two minor bugs
were fixed. More documentation was written.
Lightweight C++ 1.3
Lightweight C++ 1.3
05/05/2004 09:15 PMA language similar to C++ which is translated to C.
Lightweight C++ 0.5
Lightweight C++ 0.5
03/20/2003 02:06 PMA language similar to C++ which is translated to C.
Lightweight C++ 1.3.2
Lightweight C++ 1.3.2
05/19/2004 07:41 AMA language similar to C++ which is translated to C.
Digital Neural Axis: Evolutionary Leap
Digital Neural Axis: Evolutionary Leap
06/05/2005 10:47 PM"We realized that we were going to need a very smooth pipeline to
handle this much work." By Dustin Driver, Apple
Neural Launches First Malaysian PC Log
On Using Fingerprint Access
Neural Launches First Malaysian PC Log
On Using Fingerprint Access
04/05/2005 05:22 PMBernama Apr 5 2005 9:48PM GMT
Fuzzy Logic and Neural Nets: Still
Viable?
Fuzzy Logic and Neural Nets: Still
Viable?
06/12/2004 11:27 PMA new EDN
article discusses whether or not Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks are
still useful engineering tools after all these years, even though
their
15 minutes of fame seems to have passed. The article talks about
several
companies that still use or sell products based on each technology.
Java Object Oriented Neural Engine
Java Object Oriented Neural Engine
02/18/2004 05:31 AMJoone at FOSDEM 2004
Nonlinear Neural Nets Smooth Wi-Fi
Packets
Nonlinear Neural Nets Smooth Wi-Fi
Packets
05/04/2004 09:13 PMSf short story about upselling in neural
implants
Sf short story about upselling in neural
implants
01/04/2005 02:40 AMCory Doctorow:
Jeremy sez, "I've posted January's story to Futurismic, called
'Consensus Building.' This is another entry from Tom Doyle (author of
September's '
Art's
Appreciation'. It's a mean-spirited story about naked ambition,
greed and the fungibility of computer-assisted memory. We've also
re-opened Futurismic for fiction submissions. We've increased our
permissible word limit to 15,000 and we're going to stay open until we
get a year's worth of stories. Our guidelines are
here and
our web form for submitting is
here."
Futurismic's publishing some amazing science fiction and this story
doesn't disappoint. It's a great 10 minute read, perfect for the Web.
As always, she examined herself in the mirror, searching for
vulnerability. She was rewarded by the usual view: an attractively
fit, Slavic cheek-boned thirty-something who could still pass for
twenty-something.
"I could lose some weight," she thought. But no, she hadn't really
thought that. It was a chip idea. She consciously interfaced with the
AI to avoid further confusion. "What the fuck are you talking about? I
look great."
"You could lose a few pounds." The voice was a more clinical version
of her own. "And your skin could do with some work, too. I can
assist."
"No, thank you. Resume normal." She concentrated on getting ready for
work, but the ritual had been tainted. Despite herself, she felt
larger, flabbier, distinctly less attractive. To compensate, she
deliberately dressed sexier than her usual businesslike attire, with
shorter skirt and flashier blouse, and forced her hair to have a good
day. She refused to submit to moods as a matter of policy.
Another thought tugged at her mind. "You could really use a new
outfit." The tone was that of an enthused continental fashion
designer.
Link
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ultra lightweight xml-rpc lib for C++
ultra lightweight xml-rpc lib for C++
12/20/2003 06:24 AMulxmlrpcpp 1.2.4-final available
Heavyweight vs. lightweight
Heavyweight vs. lightweight
12/03/2002 01:34 AMCNET Dec 3 2002 1:04AM ET
RSS: Lightweight Web Syndication
RSS: Lightweight Web Syndication
05/23/2002 10:39 PMWinner who's no Lightweight
Winner who's no Lightweight
11/07/2003 08:51 AMScotsman Online Nov 7 2003 7:55AM ET
MParser a very lightweight xml parser
MParser a very lightweight xml parser
06/17/2004 03:01 PMMParser first public release!
Lightweight Business Models
Lightweight Business Models
09/22/2004 11:17 PMThe workshop that Jason Fried and myself will be giving at Web 2.0
is entitled "Lightweight Business Models". I'm liking that title more
and more as we approach the event.
What will be interesting to see - will be all the Web 1.0 folks
meeting all the Web 2.0 folks. Lots of announcements, schmoozing,
networking and (hopefully) kai-seki.
I have these vivid memories of the Nikko - doing kai-seki for hours
with various Japanese emissaries in the late 80's - when money was no
object.
I don't necessarily see the Web 2.0 as a platform with JUST eBay,
Amazon or Google - but it's nice to have them there. But it's also
nice to have Technorati, Sxip and Flickr.
:-)
The idea of workshop is that there are all these 'little' programs
out there that when connected together (via open standards) can create
a decentralized mesh of functionality united around new kinds of
micro-content.
Here's John
Battelle's post....
Over at O'Reilly,
Tim's posted his thoughts
on why Web 2.0 is a meme with legs, and he's inviting feedback from
his readers on what they'd like to see asked of all the speakers we
have coming to converse. I'd like to do the same - you guys have
always kept me honest, and the conference is really shaping up to be
something else again. As Tim puts it:
I'm talking about the emergence of what I've started to call Web
2.0, the internet as platform. We heard about that idea back in the
late 90s, at the height of the browser wars, but that turned out to be
a false alarm. But I believe we're now starting the third age of the
internet -- the first being the telnet-era command line internet, the
second the web -- and the third, well, that tale grows in the telling.
It's about the way that open source and the open standards of the web
are commoditizing many categories of infrastructure software, driving
value instead to the data and business processes layered on top of (or
within) that software; it's about the way that web sites like eBay,
Amazon, and Google are becoming platforms with rich add-on developer
communities; it's about the way that network effects and data, rather
than software APIs, are the new tools of customer lock-in; it's about
the way that to be successful, software today needs to work above the
level of a single device; it's about the way that the Microsofts and
Intels of tomorrow are once again going to blindside established
players because all the rules of business are changing.
Time and again as I report in this space, I'm struck by how
different this time round is from the late 1990s. For example, today I
spoke with Jeff Weber, who runs USAToday's digital publishing efforts,
and we had a robust conversation about publishing models, new and old.
I was part of the first wave of "new media" in the 90s, and we were
convinced that the world was changing, but wrong in the timing and
execution. Now, a whole host of "lightweight publishers" have sprung
up, and they are challenging and undermining the entire cost structure
and business model of old line publishers. This time, it's real. Weber
pointed out to me that Yahoo News, which is twice as big as
USAToday.com, and has just 11 employees. Then there's craigslist, with
more traffic than nearly anyone, and only 20 or so employees. How do
they do that? They've got a very Web 2.0, lightweight business model,
that's how (and Yahoo aggregates content, then creates interfaces, of
course). Over and over, in so many aspects of industry, we see this
happening - travel, finance, media, entertainment, retail. It's
exciting, and it's fun.
At Web 2.0, we're going to talk
about all this, and (this will be the last time, I promise) I'd really
like to see you all there. I still have a limited number of discount
codes to dole out, first come, first served (jbat at battellemedia dot
com). The event is October 5-7, in San Francisco at the Hotel
Nikko.
Even if you can't make it, check out the program
and let me know what you'd like to see asked of the speakers. I hope
to see you there!
[John
Battelle's Searchblog]
Microsoft still a collaboration
lightweight
Microsoft still a collaboration
lightweight
06/21/2004 05:59 AMSilicon.com Jun 21 2004 9:56AM GMT
Lightweight Languages 2 Conference
Lightweight Languages 2 Conference
03/13/2003 10:16 AMThis Saturday, I attended the
LL2
conference at MIT. LL2 is
dedicated to "lightweight" programming languages, a
delibrately loose
category including (1) any pleasant, easy-to-use scripting
language and
(2) any academic language which makes it easier to prototype and
write
software quickly. LL2 is a small, informal workshop with audience
participation. The attendees are a diverse bunch, and enjoy
goring
each other's sacred cows. You have been warned.
Greasemonkey as a lightweight
intermediary
Greasemonkey as a lightweight
intermediary
03/30/2005 03:05 PMIn The
architecture of intermediation, Jon Udell discusses the need for a
mechanism for a high-level tool for adding custom features to web
applications. In Jon's case, he wants to add a private bookmarks
feature to del.icio.us. Jon thought
about using a web proxy to intercept and modify del.icio.us pages, but
ruled it out as too low-level.
Jon, you need Greasemonkey.
The latest release of the swiss army knife of Firefox extensions
adds support for cross-domain XMLHttpRequest calls from greasemonkey
scripts. What that means is that you can create a user script (a short
JavaScript that will be executed whenever your browser loads specific
pages) that can then pull extra data in from another server. This new
ability is described in the
greasemonkey documentation.
I'm using this for my final year project, a decentralised web
annotation system that lets you annotate pages, storing your
annotations locally and then sharing your public annotations as a feed
(similar to the way RSS aggregators work). The trick there is to run a
local web server on some port, then have the Greasemonkey user script
(eventually a full extension) communicate with that local server to
store and retrieve data. I'm using Ruby on Rails' built in WEBrick
server to prototype the service, and it's working a treat.
This architecture could be easily adapted to add private bookmarks
to del.icio.us - or to add any number of cool features to any number
of other sites. Here's another example: Google's Desktop Search integrates
results from your local drive with the search results page on Google.
Using greasemonkey and a local web server tied in to OS X Tiger's Spotlight
indexer, you could add this functionality to any search site you
wanted to. Just be sure to lock down the web server to only serve
requests from localhost, to avoid sharing search results for your data
with anyone on the network who can see your machine.
When people asked me what I was excited about at SxSW, one
of my answers was Greasemonkey. This kind of stuff is the reason
why.
SQLite: A Lightweight Alternative
SQLite: A Lightweight Alternative
03/06/2004 02:03 AMIn this tutorial, Timothy shows you how to get started using SQLite.
Lightweight XML Search Servers
Lightweight XML Search Servers
01/22/2004 03:18 AMJon Udell creates a lightweight XML search server using Python and the
libxml/libxslt libraries.
hoarder - lightweight java cms
hoarder - lightweight java cms
04/17/2004 11:23 AMhoarder-0.1.1 released!
LULA - Lightweight User-Level ACL
LULA - Lightweight User-Level ACL
05/15/2004 09:45 PMComing Soon....
Dell ultraportable is lightweight
contender
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04/11/2005 01:59 PMPersonal Computer World Apr 11 2005 4:47PM GMT
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04/10/2004 03:23 PMfbpanel 3.4 released
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05/24/2004 11:15 PMKnowledge Base is licensed for 20 computers and uses an open database
design. It also includes up to 10 images for every Knowledge Base
article. You can also modify an article's date and who edited the
article. Knowledge Base is perfect for storing hardware/software
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Knowledge Base integrates well into an existing network. It also has:
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Joone DTE 0.8.0 released
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09/20/2004 07:12 PMJoone is a FREE neural net framework to create, train and test
artificial neural networks. The aim is to create a powerful
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Joone's neural networks can be built visually on a local machine, be
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The new version of the Distributed Training Environment offers the
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- Latest SUN's Jini 2.0 compliant
- Easily expandible with new features/algorithms/control modules, etc.
Read more about it at http://www.jooneworld.com/docs/dte.html
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06/14/2004 08:20 AMJoone 1.2.0 (Default branch)
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02/07/2005 01:17 AM
Joone (Java Object Oriented Neural Engine) is an
artificial neural network Java framework. It is
used to build and train neural networks with a
powerful visual environment. It has a modular
design and can be easily extended by writing new
modules to implement new learning algorithms or
architectures.
Changes:
This release adds many new features, including the Radial Basis
Function, a new Input Connector useful to share the same data source
between several layers, a new weights' initializing mechanism, new
learning algorithms, etc. A lot of bugs have been fixed and the
documentation has been improved.
Stross's magnificent ACCELERANDO as a
free CC download
Stross's magnificent ACCELERANDO as a
free CC download
06/17/2005 03:35 PMCory Doctorow:
Charlie Stross's brilliant novel
Accelerando is available as a free Creative Commons download!
This novel collects and bridges all of his Hugo-nominated Manfred Macx
stories, published over the last several years in Asimov's Science
Fiction Magazine. Charlie is a wild talent, and he writes like the
love-child of Vernor Vinge, Neal Stephenson and Hunter S Thompson.
Once you start this book, you won't be able to stop.
Manfred's on the road again, making strangers rich.
It's a hot summer Tuesday, and he's standing in the plaza in front of
the Centraal Station with his eyeballs powered up and the sunlight
jangling off the canal, motor scooters and kamikaze cyclists whizzing
past and tourists chattering on every side. The square smells of water
and dirt and hot metal and the fart-laden exhaust fumes of cold
catalytic converters; the bells of trams ding in the background, and
birds flock overhead. He glances up and grabs a pigeon, crops the
shot, and squirts it at his weblog to show he's arrived. The bandwidth
is good here, he realizes; and it's not just the bandwidth, it's the
whole scene. Amsterdam is making him feel wanted already, even though
he's fresh off the train from Schiphol: He's infected with the dynamic
optimism of another time zone, another city. If the mood holds,
someone out there is going to become very rich indeed.
He wonders who it's going to be.
* * *
Manfred sits on a stool out in the car park at the Brouwerij 't IJ,
watching the articulated buses go by and drinking a third of a liter
of lip-curlingly sour gueuze. His channels are jabbering away in a
corner of his head-up display, throwing compressed infobursts of
filtered press releases at him. They compete for his attention,
bickering and rudely waving in front of the scenery. A couple of punks
– maybe local, but more likely drifters lured to Amsterdam by the
magnetic field of tolerance the Dutch beam across Europe like a pulsar
– are laughing and chatting by a couple of battered mopeds in the
far corner. A tourist boat putters by in the canal; the sails of the
huge windmill overhead cast long, cool shadows across the road. The
windmill is a machine for lifting water, turning wind power into dry
land: trading energy for space, sixteenth-century style. Manfred is
waiting for an invite to a party where he's going to meet a man he can
talk to about trading energy for space, twenty-first-century style,
and forget about his personal problems.
He's ignoring the instant messenger boxes, enjoying some
low-bandwidth, high-sensation time with his beer and the pigeons, when
a woman walks up to him, and says his name: "Manfred Macx?"
He glances up. The courier is an Effective Cyclist, all wind-burned
smooth-running muscles clad in a paean to polymer technology: electric
blue lycra and wasp yellow carbonate with a light speckling of anti
collision LEDs and tight-packed air bags. She holds out a box for him.
He pauses a moment, struck by the degree to which she resembles Pam,
his ex-fiance.
Link
(
Thanks, Charlie!)
Lightweight Neural Network++
