<title> » Programming http://www.adammoro.com/blog Internet Marketing, Web Development and Programming Stuff Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:58:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Simulate Neural Networks with PHP http://www.adammoro.com/blog/simulate-neural-networks-with-php.html http://www.adammoro.com/blog/simulate-neural-networks-with-php.html#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:47:30 +0000 Adam Moro http://www.adammoro.com/blog/?p=148 Modern usage of the term, "neural networks" refers to artificial neural networks, which, in short are, interconnected artificial neurons or programming constructs that simulate the properties of biological neurons. Neural Mesh has developed a PHP-based neural network framework for simulating and administrating artificial neural networks.

Still there? In other words, they have created a system that mimics a brain. To see how the framework works in a real-world example, play a game of Connect 4 with it below:


Source: http://neuralmesh.com/examples.php

Neural Mesh has opened up a demo section (demo/password) where you can get started with your neural network and bring artificial life to your projects. Have fun!

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[ \t\r\n]

Here's an example of how to use this with PHP:

<?php
	$data = file_get_contents("http://www.adammoro.com/");
	$data = preg_replace('~[ \t\r\n]~', '', $data);
	print_r($data);
?>
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