Re: Neural nets

2003-07-12 Thread muppet
On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 08:02 PM, muppet wrote: in fact, a friend of mine recently wrote XS bindings for a C++ neural net library, and was talking about putting them on CPAN, i'll have to check on that. i bugged him a bit, and now they're up: http://search.cpan.org/author/RMCFARLA/AI-LibN

Re: Neural nets

2003-07-10 Thread Shevek
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Toby Corkindale wrote: > My experience has been that perl stops performing adequately once you're > trying to do math operations over very large quantities of data. > I'm comparing this to C or C++. > > memory usage per-node is much higher, and the time taken to run the math o

Re: Neural nets

2003-07-08 Thread Toby Corkindale
say, C, C++ or Java. Well, no, actually. There's a significant difference in runtime between the same program written in Perl or C. Not really distinguishable to the naked eye until you start scaling up, though. if you don't need to run huge neural nets, or many recognitions per s

Re: Neural nets

2003-07-07 Thread muppet
On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 02:57 PM, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: Andy Wardley wrote: Toby Corkindale wrote: I'm not convinced Perl is the best language to implement such things. Why not? Performance concerns or something else? That's a serious question by the way, not just me being provocati

Re: Neural nets

2003-07-07 Thread darren chamberlain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Luis Campos de Carvalho [2003-07-07 14:59]: > Andy Wardley wrote: > >Toby Corkindale wrote: > > > >>I'm not convinced Perl is the best language to implement such things. > > > >Why not? Performance concerns or something else? > > > >That's a seriou

Re: Neural nets

2003-07-07 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
Andy Wardley wrote: Toby Corkindale wrote: I'm not convinced Perl is the best language to implement such things. Why not? Performance concerns or something else? That's a serious question by the way, not just me being provocative. I think that Perl is not that good on number crunshing. Maybe

Re: Neural nets

2003-07-07 Thread Andy Wardley
Toby Corkindale wrote: > I'm not convinced Perl is the best language to implement such things. Why not? Performance concerns or something else? That's a serious question by the way, not just me being provocative. A cow-orker of mine has just implemented a gesture (as in pen stroke, not "up you

Re: Neural nets

2003-07-07 Thread Toby Corkindale
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 03:33:31PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > I see various modules at CPAN and I wonder if anyone has any experience using > them and would like to comment? Neural nets in general, yes; Perl versions, no. I'm not convinced Perl is the best language to implement

Neural nets

2003-07-05 Thread Adrian McMenamin
I see various modules at CPAN and I wonder if anyone has any experience using them and would like to comment? Adrian