Neural network applications
Brain maker
http://www.calsci.com/Applications.html#Stock Applications
Brain maker isn’t so much an application as much as it is a provider of many different neural network applications ranging from ones that focus specifically on stocks, commodities, and futures to pattern recognition (such as speech, numerical, and working with natural chaos).
It is a user friendly company that specializes in smart applications that generate spreadsheet based results based upon patterns in collected data that will then allow the computer to recognize, forecast, and predict. It allows for users to import lotus, excel, Dbase, and ASCII and binary files into the software for its statistical processes.
http://www.nd.com/apps/business.html
NeuroDimension
NeuroDimension offers a wide variety of Neural Network applications from the most basic of pattern recognition software to those that are more specifically designed for a specific process such as stock prediction. Similar to other Neural Networks, it uses statistical processes that mimic learning much as the way the human mind does.
Cheers,
Eric Summers
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
4.6
As the semester winds down it shifts into what I refer to as "hell month." This is the period of the final rush when those of us wonderful procrastinators must break our backs and sacrifice all the free time of our social life and sleep schedules to complete the projects that have piled upon us in addition to the projects that are being assigned and required at the end of the month.
My semester is divided amongst four classes, this one, ASP.Net, and 4790 Database which comprise the final steps of my major and I am enjoying the challenge they represent and the knowledge I am gaining from them.
The fourth class is BUAD 4980, Business Policy, the last class of my minor under the instruction of Dr. Myopi. To all readers who are on the business path I urge you to take anyone other than Dr. Myopi. Dr. Myopi is one of those instructors that go against everything I've come to love as an INFS major. In a casual explanation I have created, he is "out of touch with reality." He is completely opposed to the use of technology in the class room and it shows. His lectures are completely disjointed and unorganized. There is a required text book, but he rarely follows it. Instead he seems to be going off his notes using an outdated book, and another problem then arises as his notes lack the detail needed for a student to learn or more importantly use the information for the papers we are required to write.
And speaking of papers,
Dr. Myopi is clearly one of those professors who have no problem assigning work to his students without first trying it out him. As a for instance we are required to write papers, but unlike most professors when they assign papers his follow a very strict outline that offers really no room for creativity or independent thought on the side of the student who is to be writing this paper. The paper must include a predefined concept portion which he defines which input must be included. The concept portion is nothing more than book definitions and in the case this last paper took up six pages of my paper. Oh yes, he also has the gall to say in the guidelines for these reports that "a report is supposed be about five pages long." Upon the completion of my last report, I had twelve individual pages, now I may be stepping on some toes but I firmly believe that twelve is not "about five."
Cheers,
Eric Summers
My semester is divided amongst four classes, this one, ASP.Net, and 4790 Database which comprise the final steps of my major and I am enjoying the challenge they represent and the knowledge I am gaining from them.
The fourth class is BUAD 4980, Business Policy, the last class of my minor under the instruction of Dr. Myopi. To all readers who are on the business path I urge you to take anyone other than Dr. Myopi. Dr. Myopi is one of those instructors that go against everything I've come to love as an INFS major. In a casual explanation I have created, he is "out of touch with reality." He is completely opposed to the use of technology in the class room and it shows. His lectures are completely disjointed and unorganized. There is a required text book, but he rarely follows it. Instead he seems to be going off his notes using an outdated book, and another problem then arises as his notes lack the detail needed for a student to learn or more importantly use the information for the papers we are required to write.
And speaking of papers,
Dr. Myopi is clearly one of those professors who have no problem assigning work to his students without first trying it out him. As a for instance we are required to write papers, but unlike most professors when they assign papers his follow a very strict outline that offers really no room for creativity or independent thought on the side of the student who is to be writing this paper. The paper must include a predefined concept portion which he defines which input must be included. The concept portion is nothing more than book definitions and in the case this last paper took up six pages of my paper. Oh yes, he also has the gall to say in the guidelines for these reports that "a report is supposed be about five pages long." Upon the completion of my last report, I had twelve individual pages, now I may be stepping on some toes but I firmly believe that twelve is not "about five."
Cheers,
Eric Summers
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Neural Networks
From my experience with neural networks (based entirely upon a very brief experience while using Neural classifier) the easiest description I can think of using to describe the neural network technology is that is very closely resembles a vaguely human thought process by implementing various logarithms, statistical processes, and limited artificial intelligence software.
Using Neural Classifier we have the ability to adjust certain constraints in a CSV file which determines the final output of the product based entirely upon which constraints are implemented. If I were to ask to compare it to any other type of similar tool, I would compare it to the Solver function of Microsoft excel which involves a similar statistical process of constraints and logarithms to determine the best fitting solution.
Cheers,
Eric Summers
Using Neural Classifier we have the ability to adjust certain constraints in a CSV file which determines the final output of the product based entirely upon which constraints are implemented. If I were to ask to compare it to any other type of similar tool, I would compare it to the Solver function of Microsoft excel which involves a similar statistical process of constraints and logarithms to determine the best fitting solution.
Cheers,
Eric Summers
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Thoughts on Public Healthcare - Part 2
I am for the government option. I know far too many people who are uninsurable, a list that includes my own father a retired psychologist with six Ph. Ds in the various fields who cannot afford health insurance because he is a polio survivor which puts him in the high risk group. He like the rest of my immediate family has chosen to do without health insurance so they can afford to keep a roof over their head and the food on the table.
My mother is the owner of a small private Montessori school. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this teaching philosophy, it is a school in which students learn at their own individual pace rather than the pace of the group as a whole. Many of her students were withdrawn from public schools due to an inability to learn at the speed of the group and many of whom ended up causing disruptions in the class room as a result. Then there are students like my younger brother who is the rare type of student who learns at a much greater pace than those his age, to the point that his academic peers are only found at a college level.
Of my entire family only my little brother and myself have health insurance. I have health insurance through my place of work and Adam has government health benefits due to his age. My mother has no health insurance. She works sixty-plus hours a week and makes less money than I do, a part-time dairy sales associate at Wal-Mart, I’m not even the lowest rank of manager. My parents own and work at the school because of the fulfillment they get from the job. My mother has only handful of employees because she can only afford to hire the state required number of workers given the amount of children enrolled (for a certain number of students require additional employees). She cannot even afford to pay them more than minimum wage and they have no health care benefits. The only benefit she can offer her help is if they have children, they either get free tuition or greatly discounted rates.
As I stated previously, I have health insurance through Wal-Mart, which charges me thirty-six dollars a month (a thirty dollar increase from the insurance option that I had last year for the exact same care I might add) for the most basic of health insurances, namely a high deductible accident insurance and a limited discount on medical visits and pharmacy materials, and in comparison to a great many insured individuals I am considered to have GOOD insurance. While I have been fortunate enough to have a surprisingly healthy medical constitution, I have been to the doctor enough times to see how inflated the cost of each visit is. A visit in which a doctor performs no tests, uses only the most basic of disposables for examination purposes to prevent contamination can cost a person over $100.
I have observed and even studied countries that do have a government option, and I have discovered in my research that the benefits outweigh the costs.
So yes, based upon the information I have gathered, government healthcare is something that is long overdue in a country that is as prosperous as ours.
You want to know what I do know about the bill?
First of all, it was not forced down your throat on the basis that The Patriot Act, The War in Afghanistan, and The War in Iraq were not forced down this country’s throat when it was under the watchful eye of a differentregime leader.
Second, there is no such thing as “Death Panels” in the bill that will determine whether or not your grand parents will be allowed to continue living if something happens to them. In fact, just to prove this point I place my own surviving grandparent’s lives on the line. Grandpa Bob and Grandma Cookie front and center! If there is a death panel I will personally feed the two of them into a cremation furnace at this very moment. Wait, what’s this? They’re alive, and not covered in fire?
Finally, the government health care bill creates the option of public health care. Let me repeat that because I personally think it’s pretty important, it creates the OPTION of public healthcare. That means it does not require everyone to go to a government sanctioned health center so a government assigned medical czar can perform medical experiments upon you for the motherland. What it means is it gives you the OPTION of public healthcare. You have a choice to have whatever private insurance you want and if you are uninsured, then comrade Obama will step in and take the burden of medical costs off your back.
We are all allowed to have our own opinions. I mean why else would we be able to have two competing groups on Facebook one titled “One Million Against Government Healthcare” and the other “One Million for Government Healthcare?” We are allowed to share our thoughts, our information to anyone who will listen without consequence…
Save one.
Information, be it a statement, a choice to join a group, or even the “liking” of someone’s status message is there for everyone to see or hear, and when they do they will judge you for it and that will alter their opinion of you in some way, shape, or form; whether it is intentional or not. What you do is what creates the perceptions others have for you.
Even if you are a million strong for or against an action, if 99 percent of you are misinformed, than you are nothing more than a million misinformed buffoons. Think very carefully before you act, especially when it’s about something you may know nothing about.
Cheers,
Eric Summers
My mother is the owner of a small private Montessori school. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this teaching philosophy, it is a school in which students learn at their own individual pace rather than the pace of the group as a whole. Many of her students were withdrawn from public schools due to an inability to learn at the speed of the group and many of whom ended up causing disruptions in the class room as a result. Then there are students like my younger brother who is the rare type of student who learns at a much greater pace than those his age, to the point that his academic peers are only found at a college level.
Of my entire family only my little brother and myself have health insurance. I have health insurance through my place of work and Adam has government health benefits due to his age. My mother has no health insurance. She works sixty-plus hours a week and makes less money than I do, a part-time dairy sales associate at Wal-Mart, I’m not even the lowest rank of manager. My parents own and work at the school because of the fulfillment they get from the job. My mother has only handful of employees because she can only afford to hire the state required number of workers given the amount of children enrolled (for a certain number of students require additional employees). She cannot even afford to pay them more than minimum wage and they have no health care benefits. The only benefit she can offer her help is if they have children, they either get free tuition or greatly discounted rates.
As I stated previously, I have health insurance through Wal-Mart, which charges me thirty-six dollars a month (a thirty dollar increase from the insurance option that I had last year for the exact same care I might add) for the most basic of health insurances, namely a high deductible accident insurance and a limited discount on medical visits and pharmacy materials, and in comparison to a great many insured individuals I am considered to have GOOD insurance. While I have been fortunate enough to have a surprisingly healthy medical constitution, I have been to the doctor enough times to see how inflated the cost of each visit is. A visit in which a doctor performs no tests, uses only the most basic of disposables for examination purposes to prevent contamination can cost a person over $100.
I have observed and even studied countries that do have a government option, and I have discovered in my research that the benefits outweigh the costs.
So yes, based upon the information I have gathered, government healthcare is something that is long overdue in a country that is as prosperous as ours.
You want to know what I do know about the bill?
First of all, it was not forced down your throat on the basis that The Patriot Act, The War in Afghanistan, and The War in Iraq were not forced down this country’s throat when it was under the watchful eye of a different
Second, there is no such thing as “Death Panels” in the bill that will determine whether or not your grand parents will be allowed to continue living if something happens to them. In fact, just to prove this point I place my own surviving grandparent’s lives on the line. Grandpa Bob and Grandma Cookie front and center! If there is a death panel I will personally feed the two of them into a cremation furnace at this very moment. Wait, what’s this? They’re alive, and not covered in fire?
Finally, the government health care bill creates the option of public health care. Let me repeat that because I personally think it’s pretty important, it creates the OPTION of public healthcare. That means it does not require everyone to go to a government sanctioned health center so a government assigned medical czar can perform medical experiments upon you for the motherland. What it means is it gives you the OPTION of public healthcare. You have a choice to have whatever private insurance you want and if you are uninsured, then comrade Obama will step in and take the burden of medical costs off your back.
We are all allowed to have our own opinions. I mean why else would we be able to have two competing groups on Facebook one titled “One Million Against Government Healthcare” and the other “One Million for Government Healthcare?” We are allowed to share our thoughts, our information to anyone who will listen without consequence…
Save one.
Information, be it a statement, a choice to join a group, or even the “liking” of someone’s status message is there for everyone to see or hear, and when they do they will judge you for it and that will alter their opinion of you in some way, shape, or form; whether it is intentional or not. What you do is what creates the perceptions others have for you.
Even if you are a million strong for or against an action, if 99 percent of you are misinformed, than you are nothing more than a million misinformed buffoons. Think very carefully before you act, especially when it’s about something you may know nothing about.
Cheers,
Eric Summers
Monday, March 29, 2010
Thoughts on Public Healthcare - Part 1
Let’s talk about something controversial.
Politics and religion are two most controversial things to immediately come to mind.
As almost everyone who follows my writings have no doubt concluded I am an opinionated individual and absolutely nothing is sacred in the view of my analyses.
That’s one the things that I love about his country, it allows me to not only think about whatever I want whenever I want it also allows me to publicly state exactly what’s on my mind as I do on this site without punishment, even when they go against the public norm.
Almost everyone upon sites like this partake in the exact same freedom I am exercising, whether or not they choose to take advantage of it is their choice.
Why?
Because we are free to do so.
We are free to publicly call out individuals and publically criticize or praise them as we see fit, no matter how biased or rude we choose to be in doing so.
We are free to publicly incite talks of sedition (with the small caveat that you are not organizing or planning activities that can cause physical harm to others or their property).
We are free to publicly criticize or praise the religions and personal beliefs of others.
We are free to publicly criticize or praise the government and their decisions.
Aside from social backlash and the opinions of others for us, we are free to think or say anything we want.
Our thoughts, beliefs, and actions are determined by information. It is upon information that we make our judgment. All information impacts our decisions, even if it is inaccurate information, it’s all fair game.
Take the public healthcare bill which just passed. From my observations, everyone has an opinion and almost all of them fall into one of two categories, they’re either for it or they’re against it and it is exceedingly rare that I see a topic such as this where the response is so black and white. Furthermore I would bet money that ninety-nine percent of those with an opinion have failed to read the entire bill, if any, myself included.
The majority of us have no complete knowledge of everything that is in the bill. So where do get our information that we use to make the judgments we base our decisions upon?
There are three ways that I know are most often used (excluding “gut” responses).
The first is to observe how public healthcare (I’d say socialized, but then I’d have to define the word since its meaning “socialized - to take part in social activities, or behave in a friendly way to others; to give somebody the skills required for functioning successfully in society or in a particular society; or to place something under public ownership or control” and inform everyone how things like social security benefits, Medicare, Medicaid, the public parks, etc. are all socialized systems) works in other countries. For those who are very determined to access information will likely ask citizens about how they feel about the public healthcare in their countries.
The second method involves observing the current situation of privatized health care (at the time of this writing the public option has yet to be implemented), and see how many people are unable to obtain health insurance due to preexisting conditions, lack of finances for the necessary insurance, and/or working for employers who do not or are unable to provide health insurance. Perhaps in this observation they can also see the excessive costs involved in an uninsured medical visit.
Lastly, there is the option of hearing about what is in the bill by listening to what others say about the bill.
While these are all valid options, every option has its own areas where information can be distorted.
Referring to other countries or individuals for guidance can lead to misinformation based upon a lack of substantial research on the observer’s part or differences in sociocultural and political values between the citizens of two different countries.
Observing the current situation leaves one privy to their own observational abilities, be they good or bad. Depending upon a person’s personality or commitment to maintaining an unbiased observation, the quality of what they observe is going to be questionable at best.
But, by far the most inaccurate and misleading of the three methods is the last, the opinions of others.
Think about this for a moment, but only if you can do it by yourself without the input of others.
Just how informed are these “experts” you are basing your opinion upon? Have they read the bill or did they base their opinion upon the three observational methods I have just described? And do they have anything to PERSONALLY GAIN from the outcome of their opinion or from their opinion itself?
A sole fact remains: If your opinion is based entirely upon the opinions and interpretations of others, you are making a judgment on bad information.
I have news for all of you; the following people are not experts on the healthcare bill:
Bill O’Rielly
Glenn Beck
Rush Limbaugh
Ann Coulter
Sarah Palin
The hosts of Fox and Friends
Joe Scarborough
Keith Olbermann
Jon Stewart
Stephen Colbert
ME
The only difference is the last three, at the risk of comparing myself too favorably to satirists who I consider to be masters of their craft, publicly admit and know they are not experts.
Not satisfied with that list?
Chances are:
Your minister
Your priest
Your physics teacher
Your government teacher
Your principal
Your parents
Your brothers
Your sisters
Your friends
And YOU
ARE NOT EXPERTS.
To be Concluded Tomorrow!
Cheers,
Eric Summers
Politics and religion are two most controversial things to immediately come to mind.
As almost everyone who follows my writings have no doubt concluded I am an opinionated individual and absolutely nothing is sacred in the view of my analyses.
That’s one the things that I love about his country, it allows me to not only think about whatever I want whenever I want it also allows me to publicly state exactly what’s on my mind as I do on this site without punishment, even when they go against the public norm.
Almost everyone upon sites like this partake in the exact same freedom I am exercising, whether or not they choose to take advantage of it is their choice.
Why?
Because we are free to do so.
We are free to publicly call out individuals and publically criticize or praise them as we see fit, no matter how biased or rude we choose to be in doing so.
We are free to publicly incite talks of sedition (with the small caveat that you are not organizing or planning activities that can cause physical harm to others or their property).
We are free to publicly criticize or praise the religions and personal beliefs of others.
We are free to publicly criticize or praise the government and their decisions.
Aside from social backlash and the opinions of others for us, we are free to think or say anything we want.
Our thoughts, beliefs, and actions are determined by information. It is upon information that we make our judgment. All information impacts our decisions, even if it is inaccurate information, it’s all fair game.
Take the public healthcare bill which just passed. From my observations, everyone has an opinion and almost all of them fall into one of two categories, they’re either for it or they’re against it and it is exceedingly rare that I see a topic such as this where the response is so black and white. Furthermore I would bet money that ninety-nine percent of those with an opinion have failed to read the entire bill, if any, myself included.
The majority of us have no complete knowledge of everything that is in the bill. So where do get our information that we use to make the judgments we base our decisions upon?
There are three ways that I know are most often used (excluding “gut” responses).
The first is to observe how public healthcare (I’d say socialized, but then I’d have to define the word since its meaning “socialized - to take part in social activities, or behave in a friendly way to others; to give somebody the skills required for functioning successfully in society or in a particular society; or to place something under public ownership or control” and inform everyone how things like social security benefits, Medicare, Medicaid, the public parks, etc. are all socialized systems) works in other countries. For those who are very determined to access information will likely ask citizens about how they feel about the public healthcare in their countries.
The second method involves observing the current situation of privatized health care (at the time of this writing the public option has yet to be implemented), and see how many people are unable to obtain health insurance due to preexisting conditions, lack of finances for the necessary insurance, and/or working for employers who do not or are unable to provide health insurance. Perhaps in this observation they can also see the excessive costs involved in an uninsured medical visit.
Lastly, there is the option of hearing about what is in the bill by listening to what others say about the bill.
While these are all valid options, every option has its own areas where information can be distorted.
Referring to other countries or individuals for guidance can lead to misinformation based upon a lack of substantial research on the observer’s part or differences in sociocultural and political values between the citizens of two different countries.
Observing the current situation leaves one privy to their own observational abilities, be they good or bad. Depending upon a person’s personality or commitment to maintaining an unbiased observation, the quality of what they observe is going to be questionable at best.
But, by far the most inaccurate and misleading of the three methods is the last, the opinions of others.
Think about this for a moment, but only if you can do it by yourself without the input of others.
Just how informed are these “experts” you are basing your opinion upon? Have they read the bill or did they base their opinion upon the three observational methods I have just described? And do they have anything to PERSONALLY GAIN from the outcome of their opinion or from their opinion itself?
A sole fact remains: If your opinion is based entirely upon the opinions and interpretations of others, you are making a judgment on bad information.
I have news for all of you; the following people are not experts on the healthcare bill:
Bill O’Rielly
Glenn Beck
Rush Limbaugh
Ann Coulter
Sarah Palin
The hosts of Fox and Friends
Joe Scarborough
Keith Olbermann
Jon Stewart
Stephen Colbert
ME
The only difference is the last three, at the risk of comparing myself too favorably to satirists who I consider to be masters of their craft, publicly admit and know they are not experts.
Not satisfied with that list?
Chances are:
Your minister
Your priest
Your physics teacher
Your government teacher
Your principal
Your parents
Your brothers
Your sisters
Your friends
And YOU
ARE NOT EXPERTS.
To be Concluded Tomorrow!
Cheers,
Eric Summers
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
3.23
While I am still under the effects of the sinus infection, it's severity has greatly diminished. I am still having many problems breathing (i.e. my nose is completely clogged in addition to some drainage still in my throat), but at least I am able to attend my classes today. Penicillin to the rescue it would seem.
Wonderful...another exam coming up this Thursday. It would appear that I will be a busy man on Thursday with on ASP.NET project to finish before Friday, my general education exam, and an exam in this class over groundswell. Don't expect to see a blog for Wednesday or Thursday.
Cheers,
Eric Summers
Wonderful...another exam coming up this Thursday. It would appear that I will be a busy man on Thursday with on ASP.NET project to finish before Friday, my general education exam, and an exam in this class over groundswell. Don't expect to see a blog for Wednesday or Thursday.
Cheers,
Eric Summers
Monday, March 22, 2010
3.22
This marks day two of a sinus infection the likes of which has left me completely drained mentally and physically. I was able to go into work on Saturday despite the fact that my cough and nose left me practically disabled throughout the day. Sunday I was rendered completely useless to the point that I was forced to call out lest I get any worse (this was after I ended up falling asleep in my car as I started it while in my apartment complex). I scheduled a visit online Sunday to go to the health center in the Rec center in hopes of gaining a prescription to some stronger medications to fight this infection.
I am quite pleased with my visit. The health center in the Rec. Center was an extremely good deal. I spent $4 when it was all done, and that was just for the medication. My visit and the filling of the prescription was completely free. All students who do find themselves in need of medical attention I will gladly recommend a visit to the health center.
Cheers,
Eric Summers
I am quite pleased with my visit. The health center in the Rec. Center was an extremely good deal. I spent $4 when it was all done, and that was just for the medication. My visit and the filling of the prescription was completely free. All students who do find themselves in need of medical attention I will gladly recommend a visit to the health center.
Cheers,
Eric Summers
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