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Re: neural net advice

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From: Don Stokes, GPO
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1989 20:00
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In article <239@berlioz.nsc.com>, andrew@dtg.nsc.com (Lord Snooty @ The Giant Poisoned Electric Head       ) writes:
> In article <1105@m3.mfci.UUCP>, colwell@mfci.UUCP (Robert Colwell) writes:
>> I have volunteered to help a local high school with computer-related
>> science projects, and one of the students wants to do a project 
>> on "machine learning"(didn't we use to call that "AI"?), perhaps
>> contrasting the neural networks approach against the rule-based
>> approach.
> 
> I'd advise that the quickest route for a one-semester blast-through would
> be "Explorations in PDP" - the third in the series by Rummelhart and
> McClelland, MIT Press. 

I seem to recall that sometime back in the dim dark past, "PDP" meant
"Programmed Data Processor", as in PDP-11... (sorry, couldn't resist it 8-).

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From: don@gp.govt.nz (Don Stokes, GPO)
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Subject: Re: neural net advice
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Date: 23 Nov 89 20:00:02 GMT
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