NN book

Submitted by johnfire on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 03:48

Getting Started

Jeff,

I am fairly new to ANN, and was nearly put off when I saw some of the existing mathematical type books. However, I found this site and I am starting to enjoy the learning process, especially the ANN math book and videos - many thanks. These complement each other very well. Are there any new topics planned for the next version of the ANN math book, i.e. GA, HMM etc.

I must admit, this is definitely the first ANN book I have not found painful. I am no expert yet and will need to re-read through the book a few more times to let some topics like batch training sink-in.

The next stage for me is to look into buying one of the Encog C# or Java books, (maybe a giant step with very little programming knowledge) and thereafter trying to work through the Encog examples.

This site is excellent for someone like me i.e. long out of school, so many thanks again to you Jeff and the team - best regards John.

Submitted by jeffheaton on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 07:11.

Thanks! Glad you like the book.

The next book will be something in the area of Bayesian. Probably something that focuses just on on Bayesian Nets/HMM. Probably about the size of the Math neural network book. I might pair it with a Math based book to explain it. Still planning that part out.

I am also considering the idea of taking my "Java for the Beginning Programmer" and expanding it to be a sort of learn to program and learn the basics of AI, at the same time. So that it would lead right into the Encog book. This is somewhat inspired by http://www.udacity.com/, where they teach you to program in 7 weeks while learning to build a search engine.