Back propogation isn't the only way to teach a neural net. There's plenty of ways you can set up the system to teach itself a function. Temporal difference learning is one such way that uses back propogation to manipulate the network weights but generates its own internal error signal without any external teacher. It takes a lot longer to learn the function but it can be done.
I wonder what the cease and desist letters will look like...
"We demand you cease and desist your infringement of our client's intellectual property. What you flippantly call 'living' is clearly nothing more than a blatant disregard for our client's patent rights."
We really ought to instate some kind of national Beat a Lawyer day.
Having used one of the "approved" AIM clients for quite some time now I can say that I've never once seen an advertisement that wasn't simply begging you to sign up for AOL in return for however many hundreds of free hours they were offering at the time. Given this, you can't really say that they're losing any advertising revenue since they aren't getting any to begin with. I sincerely doubt a significant number of people have signed up for AOL because of those advertisements in the AIM clients.
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Does anyone else find it disturbing that one of their role model "Hollywood Heroes" is Dirty Harry?
Back propogation isn't the only way to teach a neural net. There's plenty of ways you can set up the system to teach itself a function. Temporal difference learning is one such way that uses back propogation to manipulate the network weights but generates its own internal error signal without any external teacher. It takes a lot longer to learn the function but it can be done.
I wonder what the cease and desist letters will look like...
"We demand you cease and desist your infringement of our client's intellectual property. What you flippantly call 'living' is clearly nothing more than a blatant disregard for our client's patent rights."
We really ought to instate some kind of national Beat a Lawyer day.
Having used one of the "approved" AIM clients for quite some time now I can say that I've never once seen an advertisement that wasn't simply begging you to sign up for AOL in return for however many hundreds of free hours they were offering at the time. Given this, you can't really say that they're losing any advertising revenue since they aren't getting any to begin with. I sincerely doubt a significant number of people have signed up for AOL because of those advertisements in the AIM clients.