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Subject: Don't use NNs they suck.

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 01:52:10 07/27/01

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On July 25, 2001 at 22:33:16, Pham Minh Tri wrote:

>Machine learning and auto adjusting the evaluation function are big and
>interesting fields.
>
>I know that someones are applying those fields and having good results. For
>example to encourage you, Vincent (from his post) has been using Neural Network
>and Machine learning technique to improve his strong and famous program - DIEP.
>Someothers do not like them because of ineffectiveness.

What's this for nonsense?

I only could conclude NNs failed bigtime to just find a *normal*
parameter set when the number of parameters get big.

Also though officially finding better parameters is called 'learning',
i do not see it as real learning.

Real learning is if you let the machine find the patterns.

What i tried was parameter optimizing techniques at an automated
way and that failed so miserably that the obvious conclusion was that
you need domain specific knowledge to optimize the parameters.

More interesting as another going to fail attempt to create something
that optimizes parameters is making a genetic algorithm to factorize
big numbers.

Best regards,
Vincent

>Good luck and have fun with your project.
>Pham



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