Reviews for The Roots of Backpropagation: From Ordered Derivatives to Neural Networks and Political Forecasting

The average rating for The Roots of Backpropagation: From Ordered Derivatives to Neural Networks and Political Forecasting based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-07-04 00:00:00 Tyler Martin Ah, the book responsible for a strange little diversion in my life. There I was, a 19 year old first year linguistics student, when I borrowed this book from my mathematics student flatmate. And I thought - "this is really interesting, how can I get into it?" and ended up - someone who hadn't programmed a computer in my life - switching to study artificial intelligence. Which led some years later to working as a programmer in a chaotically run start-up as the dotcom boom petered out... An experience I still think I ought to be able to get a book out of somehow. But anyway, enough of that. I don't know how this book has aged, but at the time, I found its overview of the point where computer science and biology met inspiring - and to judge from others I spoke to on that course, I wasn't alone in having my interest sparked by this book.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-04-11 00:00:00 Duncan Knight Fascinating read but quite outdated