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Title: This book is a Rosetta stone into neural networks
Review: This text has an extensive development of Neural networksfrom a strong statistical basis. For anyone wanting aquick way to access the broad spectrum of literature coveringneural networks and find the seminal papers, thoughts, developmentsof the field, the literature references are worth the price.This is essentially a literature survey, and not a "how-to"book. It is not excessively heavy on the mathematics butthe uses verbiage to enhance the math that is necessary forsuch a topic. It handles a number of significant but oftenoverlooked issues, such as the need for an ordering scheme of the partialderivatives in backpropagation. Most authors don't address the obscurebut important points that will make or break your work if youaren't aware of them. Ripley makes the reader cognizant ofwhere the minefields lie. This book is a Rosetta stone intoneural networks.
