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Build Your Own Neural Network

Posted by michael on from the skynet dept.

windowpain writes "I just discovered Joone. It's an LGPL neural net development environment for creating, training and testing neural networks. The aim is to create a powerful environment both for enthusiasts and professional users, based on the newest Java technologies. Joone is composed by a central engine that is the fulcrum of all applications that already exist or will be developed. It's available in Linux, MacOS and Windows versions."

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  1. Whats wrong with SNNS by Directrix1 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Stuttguart Neural Network Simulator has been available for free for a long time now.

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    1. Re:Whats wrong with SNNS by KMAPSRULE · · Score: 5, Informative

      From the SNNS licensing terms:
      SNNSv4.1 is available NOW free of charge for research purposes under a...

      LGPL(Joone's Licensing) is a VERY attractive License for commercial users, "free for research purposes" would preclude some from being able to use it,
      other wise I agree this Joone seems to have less features/algorithm support than SNNS

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  2. Very limited number of algorithms by a_ghostwheel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Looks rather limited to me. It's again implements only BP algorithms and their variants. Why not include ART-based (adaptive resonance theory) and LVQ-based (linear vector quantization) algorithms? They are much more efficient than BP in many instances (e.g. classification problems).

    In other words, sounds very limited to me.

  3. Can also be combined with genetic algorithms by mrblah · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those who want to combine genetic algorithms with neural networks, there's also a project that combines joone with JGAP (a Java genetic algorithms framework).