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Review title: A third or second book the subject
Product review: Generally I would agree with the reviewer who titled his review "Mindstorms meets NN; same strengths and weaknesses".This is a decent book that provides some interesting insights into the subject matter. There are some very nice intuitive ideas that gives meaning to some of the math. Unfortunately, other parts of the text lack this intuition and seem like a presentation of network structure and algorithms more than a presentation of the ideas behind them.I started my research in this area with a software engineering and management background with some intermediate signal processing experience on top. I also read Duda and Hart's Pattern Recognition book along with months of literature review on the subject before tackling this one. I must say that I am still confused on many points.This is not an introductory text and will most certainly require the reader to seek out other references to fill in its gaps.
