D.P. Sharma–Nov 19, 2009
In the last couple of years, the implications of Neural Network have been the subject of research along with its application. However, the training aspect of this most promising technique is not taken so seriously, and thus as a result most of the students find it a troublesome corner to touch.
The thing we need to do is to simplify the concept and to provide an example application with adequate program, so that the learners can put it to experiment and learn, since students have a common tendency to learn faster by experimenting...lots of bookish learning create boredom for them.
This is the responsibility of teachers and researchers to:
- Simplify the technology, and
- Provide the practicle aspects of the technology in an experimental way.
What we want now is to make the students properly prepared to take up the task independently in hand the moment they finish their study, and for this they must be practically oriented before they drop down to the real job assignment.
All the members of scientific community must think together and to spare some moments for the generation to follow. We all need to be in constant communication to each other to perform this greatest task.
- Graeme Smith wrote on Jan 7, 2010 5:37 pmThe primary problem with simplifying the concepts of neural networks lies in the failure of the neural network paradigm to resolve to an intuitive concept that does not require other paradigms to be accepted as well. The concepts of tolerance to uncertainty, Fuzziness in logic, and perhaps even soft computing, are necessary concepts to intuitively grasp the nature of neural networks. While Dr. Edelmans Neural Darwinism is necessary to get beyond small homogenous networks, it has the unfortunate requirement that people accept the concept of self-organization based on darwins work, and as a result will have some religious implications that affect the willingness of some states and provinces to accept such concepts as necessary to education. Because of this, I do not believe that teaching this subject will easily be transferred to even secondary education. Having said that, I wish you luck.
