Geekosystem - Your Geek Guide To Tech & Internet Culture CMUSphinx: The Carnegie Mellon Sphinx Project Khan Academy Backpropagator's Review Purpose This document is something of a backprop FAQ, reading list (with a preference for online articles) and a summary of the state of the art. Its aimed at people who want practical advice on using backprop. Note that for the most part I am trying to avoid duplicating information that is already found in the NN FAQ that can be found at SAS Institute, North Carolina or a plain text version is available from the MIT FAQ collection and SAS Institute, North Carolina. In particular I am leaving it to the curator of the NN FAQ to list books and general backprop software. A Plea for Help I'm always on the lookout for worthwhile articles and experiences with the various techniques, if you can suggest articles or give your experiences with a technique please let me know. A Plea for Programs There are so many papers being published on backprop that no one can keep up. Viewing These Pages Now I am joining the crowd and recommending Netscape although lynx works perfectly well. <a name="xyz"></a>.
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The Bizarre Origins of 8 Wedding Traditions If the throngs of crazed customers clutching registry printouts at Crate & Barrel are any indication, wedding season is once again upon us. Before you head off to the next joyous union on your jam-packed calendar, let's take a moment to reflect on the rich history of marriage celebrations and revel in the realization that weddings are, at their core, incredibly bizarre. 1. Technically, today's wedding gowns aren't white. 2. Remember that "Women's Studies" class you considered taking in college? 3. Talk about your runaway brides—the original duty of a "Best Man" was to serve as armed backup for the groom in case he had to resort to kidnapping his intended bride away from disapproving parents. The best man stands guard next to the groom right up through the exchange of vows (and later, outside the newlyweds' bedroom door), just in case anyone should attack or if a non-acquiescent bride should try to make a run for it. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
HLW: Introduction: The Book next to the part of the text that they refer to. At the end of each chapter is a section containing problems on the material in the chapter. There is a link to the problems covering a given section at the bottom of that section page. Linguistic examples In the book, linguistic examples from languages other than English usually include a representation of the pronunciation of the word(s) and the meaning of the word(s). For some linguistic examples the precise pronunciation is important; for others it isn't. When precise pronunciation is not important, linguistic examples appear in italics. In this example the word hablaban has been broken into three separate morphemes, and a meaning is given for each of these below the word in the second line. English usage The English used in this book is meant to be a relatively informal variety of standard written American English. , as has been common in English speech and writing since at least the time of Shakespeare . altogether.