1. What is an artificial neural network and for what types of problems can it be used?
2. Compare artificial and biological neural networks. What aspects of biological networks are not mimicked by artificial ones? What aspects are similar?
3. What are the most common ANN architectures? For what types of problems can they be used?
4. 4. ANN can be used for both supervised and unsupervised learning. Explain how they learn in a supervised mode and in an unsupervised mode.
5. Go to Google Scholar (scholar.google.com). Conduct a search to find two papers written in the last five years that compare and contrast multiple machine-learning methods for a given problem domain. Observe commonalities and differences among their findings and prepare a report to summarize your understanding.
6. Go to neuroshell.com. click on the examples and look at the current examples. Comment on the feasibility of achieving the results claimed by the developers of this neural network model.
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Artificial neural network
An artificial neural network (ANN) is a system based on the operation of biological neural networks or it is also defined as an emulation of biological neural system. Artificial neural networks are used in sequence and pattern recognition systems, data processing, robotics, modeling, etc. ANN requires knowledge from their surroundings by adapting to internal and external parameters and they solve complex problems which are difficult to manage. Biological neural networks are made of oscillators – this gives them the ability to filter inputs and to resonate with noise. It also gives them the ability to retain hidden firing patterns. Artificial neural networks are time-independent and cannot filter their inputs. They retain fixed and apparent (but black-boxy) firing patterns after training.
ough Victors fixation on nature and science, he discovers that “science looked for everlasting status and power”, and was keen on all that didn’t exist (Shelley. 29). Victor chose to detach himself from everybody he cherished throughout everyday life. This segregation brought upon the extraordinary person transforms we find in Victor. In seclusion Victor began to lose his honesty, he began to fixate on mirroring nature. Through this he made his own Monster, and pondered internally, “I was shocked that among such countless men of virtuoso, who had coordinated their asks towards a similar science, that I alone ought to be held to find so astounding confidential” (Shelley. 34). Victor is easing back beginning to uncover his tremendous characteristics, and the possibility that he accepts it is unbelievable to make such an animal as he did is only the start of his deficiency of empathy. He portrays the Monster as, “the hopeless beast whom I had made” (Shelley 39). This once love for nature presently seems like weight to him. He likewise proceeds to depict his production of this Monster as “damnation for me” (Shelley. 40). In addition to the fact that he created this animal deserted he it. He can’t take mindfully for the Monster wherein he has made. This by itself shows the human nature of empathy falling through Victors fingertips.
After Victors creation has been finished, and after he has deserted this Monster, the Monster proceeds to kill not exclusively Victor’s most youthful sibling, yet his closest companion, and spouse. The Monster likewise is the reason for two other aberrant passings, including Victors father. Victor clarifies, “Except if I had been vivified by a practically extraordinary excitement, my application to this study would have been infuriating and practically unbearable” (Shelley, 32). Victor feels no regret and feels like he isn’t at fault for the Monster’s wrongdoings. Victor keeps on showing immense attributes when he faces his animal in the Alps. Victor has the inclination and need to obliterate the Monster wherein he made, despite the fact that Victor doesn’t really know this Monster. Victor is basing his assessments of the Monster on what he can see and not who the Monster genuinely is becoming. Victor was crazy and childish in his creation and won’t acknowledge the outcomes, in any event, when they impact individuals he as far as anyone knows “loves”. Victor is self-centered and has capacity to feel for other people. He can’t see that the genuine beast is himself, and that through his utilization of information and power, he separated himself from humankind and turned out to be less then human.