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I’ve been working on my final paper for 6 months + now and it’s come to the finish line. It’s not what I had hoped it would be but it’s still good enough. Instead of creating a new neural network system (which is a long shot in the first place anyway), I’ve managed a slightly modified radial basis function system to compete with a widely adopted MLP for predicting stock market price. I’m taking RBF as a pattern recognition tools because I’m looking on a wide array of data.

Let’s see if the new system can be better than an MLP system ;-)

After I graduate, I still wanted to learn more about this neural network system because it offers us a wide variety of method to solve a wide variety of problems. People said that this kind of method is a ‘black-box’ method because we can’t see how it works. I say they’re wrong because if we design the system, we can clearly see how it works (to some degree). Next stop should be me learning C++ or Java. Which one do you think should I take?

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Not C++ nor Java.

Consider Haskell, Erlang, or Ruby.

I have heard alot of good things on Ruby but haven’t heard Erlang or Haskell (will lookup for those though). It’s just for personal use anyway and C++ and Java already has a mature base to mingle with neural networks (many books were written about it).

I’ll look into other possibilities though, thanks for the advice ;)

Congrats, Oskar. You deserve a long… break.

~ Jennie
(ps I commented on your comment on my blog)

take a break, dear .. too much work will make oskar a dull fellow :)

I took mine a little while ago, and maaan.. it was really worth it!

next visit, I gotta see and hug you and meet the gank of mine, sure dude!

I agree with you on how NN outperform the old Econometrics Model to forecast and recognize pattern. Last year I completed paper on forecasting Jakarta Composite Index using Multi Layer Perceptron Network, knowingly well as MLP. To some extent, for a time series data, MLP is proven to be effectively used,; however, it has a limitation when it come to high degree of multivariation input data and high dimension of data (i.e option, and other derivatives). RBF is new for me, can I discuss this more with you ? Is it a supervised or un-supervised learning algorithm ? Does it inherit a Genetics Algorithm ?

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Ujuan

Hi. I really like your blog. Was wondering if you want to add it to my directory? Thanks Shelly

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Almost Finish? well done…

I little bit info about this BLOG, when I test on MS IE 7.0 this BLOG become BROKEN and not good to see…

don’t know what they are all about :), just want to congrats for climbing another mountain.

@Jennie: Thank you very much, but for the break? Not yet is my answer. Just a little more… :-)

@Luigi: I’ll also introduced you to the gank of mine! Some of them you already know probably. And dude, I seriously considering working on the UN right after graduation ;-)

@Ujuan Panjaitan: Yup, since my data isn’t a time series data, MLP doesn’t work quite well which means RBF is a better alternative by design. Sure thing I’ll discuss it with you further via email, please note though, I’m not very familiar with NN since I just learned it a couple of months ago. As for RBF, it’s a blend of supervised and unsupervised training method which is why I choose it. I have no idea what a Genetics Algorithm is :-P

@Shelly: of course sherry no problem

@Jauhari: How broken? I still use IE 6, Firefox, Camino, Opera, and also Safari but never see it using IE7.

@Aroengbinang: It’s my final paper. Thanks to you too :-)

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