'General' Category
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Jul102010
Parsing complex sentences
I wonder how many general purpose parsers are able to handle a sentence like:
I feel you and you feel meThe difficulty here is 2 folded: the you and the and. Is you a personal object or subject pronoun and what does the and combine. Basically, do we mean ‘I feel you’ and ‘you feel me’ [...]
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Jun092010
Neural network designer 0.4.6
Perhaps a mid-dev cycle release would be appropriate this time round, since some changes were done to the core and some people might be interested in taking a peek under the hood. Here’s roughly what’s changed:
There’s a new expression: the LockExpression, which does what you would expect: lock 1 or more neurons and/or 1 or [...]
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May312010
Deadlocks, again
I just spent the last 3 days chasing down 3 deadlocks that were teaming up against me. Man, I hate deadlocks. They were definitely the biggest obstacles so far in the development process. Simply because their origins are so hard to locate. And that, even though they are always caused by the same type of [...]
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Feb242010
WPF is getting under my skin
I have been fighting the WPF model all the way during the development of NND. And it is wearing me down. Latest problem: the updated selection box for frame element filters doesn’t want to get focus, making it impossible to use the keyboard. I guess the new release will have to wait until I can [...]
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Jan192010
Aici’s first words
New release coming shortly.
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Oct032009
Lightning fast
The new thread locking algorithm is beginning to work and it looks fast, real fast. Yes
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Sep142009
Roadmap
I thought I’d write something down on how I see things progress from here on. No dates and times, just a general idea of what I have planned for the next release (version 0.3), so here goes.
Thread sync system
There still is a major hiccup in the execution core: some instructions aren’t guaranteed to be uninterruptable, [...] -
Sep122009
NND 0.2 released
I sort of blew out all the cylinders while attempting a first run directly from numbers to the English grammar: memory usage went up to +1.5 gig, thread count was +800 and a gazillion temporary neurons had been created before it all came to a grinding halt. Some redesign was required. So I beefed up [...]
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Sep062009
Finally
Man, this was a tough nut to crack, but it’s done, it’s finally done. The flow recognition algorithm is working.
To find some of the more tedious bugs, I had to create 2 new debugging techniques: attached neurons and split paths, which I will explain shortly. The whole algorithm eventually became seriously elaborate to [...]
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Aug152009
A mind of it’s own
My network is starting to get a mind of it’s own:
I am trying to get the flow recognition algorithm working so it can handle mixed content (words, numbers and signs mixed), which has been one of the more difficult algorithms I have worked on, to date. Clearly, I still haven’t got the order quite [...]