[Techtalk] Running Matlab & Nural Networking (Re: Remote X applications )

[Sue Stones]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:54 am, John Clarke wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 10:54:44 +1100, Sue Stones wrote:
> > Thanks heaps John,
>
> You're welcome.
>
> > On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:18 pm, John Clarke wrote:
> > > Yes, and it's a very easy thing to fix - five seconds to change
> > > sshd_config and restart sshd.  They may have a good reason to disable
> > > x11 forwarding though - it can use a lot of bandwidth.

Well my lecturer, as I expected, wasn't interseted in fixing this problem.  It 
may only take 5 seconds to fix the problem, but there might be 5 weeks of red 
tape to do it.  So I wasn't surprised.

Basically he wants me to try another method.  I have 2 pairs options (total 
4), and actually would like to follow 3 of them.

Group A: situation that will allow me to run the textbook files:-

i) get Matlab doing what I want on Windows.  (yes I do want to do this because 
it give me a control to see that I have everything working on as I need it on 
Linux.  And because it is important to be able to do things on Windows for 
those time when I don't have a choice)

ii) get Octave compiled and use the textbook examples there.  (I have had 
trouble with this, I'll try again today.  And ask here for help if I can't 
get arround them)

Group B: situation that will allow me to do some neural nets but not use 
textbook files

i) Scilab - it doesn't have much in the way of neural nets, so I could be up 
with 2 Mb of tying in examples, and perhaps some translation ... (I am not 
keen to follow this option at all)

ii) Find a program written in C that does neural nets. - (I would love to be 
able to use, or look at neural nets done in C, and possibly even  write my 
assingments as C programs rather than Matlab programs.  But I think I need to 
be able to run the matlab exaples so that I can figgure out how they work 
before I tackle this one)
Does anyone know of any C programs to that do any neural nets?

Finally there is one off the planet suggestion.
Prolog would be great to write neural nets in but being an interpreted 
language it would take "400 years to run" (to quote my lecturer).  I don't 
suppose there is any such strange best as a prolog compiler?

sue