Neuro Networks

Question

Has anybody here created a neuro network? (machine learning to do a specific task using generations) I am interested in creating one but the only thing I know I will need is a game engine. What I'm asking is if anybody could tell me the logic behind how they work, and the algorithms that make it work. Would you do something like creating an array, and the next generation creates a new array based on the winning gene?

Answer 1

Once you have studied neural networks, you can program them in any language. 10 years ago i made a project for a german university, where a fire detector could decide what the burning material was (wood, cigarette, paper etc.). What i did was to pick a large amount of data in excel, simulate them with matlab to find the best NN type and finally implement a c code in labview. Once i decided that a double layer perceptron was ideal for my project, i wrote the code in c. I remember that it was pure math and mostly arrays. But it was fun and finally a simple sensor became "clever". But i was reading a lot back then. I know if i look this code now i wont remember many things