Learn how to implement and build a neural network with this non-technical, project-based book as your guide. As you work through the chapters, you'll build an electronics project, providing a hands-on experience in training a network. There are no prerequisites here and you won't see a single line of computer code in this book. Instead, it takes a hardware approach using very simple electronic components. You'll start off with an interesting non-technical introduction to neural networks, and then construct an electronics project. The project isn't complicated, but it illustrates how back propagation can be used to adjust connection strengths or "weights" and train a network. By the end of this book, you'll be able to take what you've learned and apply it to your own projects. If you like to tinker around with components and build circuits on a breadboard, Neural Networks for Electronics Hobbyists is the book for you. What You'll Learn Gain a practical introduction to neural networks Review techniques for training networks with electrical hardware and supervised learning Understand how parallel processing differs from standard sequential programming Who This Book Is For Anyone interest in neural networks, from electronic hobbyists looking for an interesting project to build, to a layperson with no experience. Programmers familiar with neural networks but have only implemented them using computer code will also benefit from this book.

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Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle’s works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon’s The Basic Works of Aristotle–constituted out of the definitive Oxford translation and in print as a Random House hardcover for sixty years–has long been considered the best available one-volume Aristotle. Appearing in paperback at long last, this edition includes selections from the Organon, On the Heavens, The Short Physical Treatises, Rhetoric, among others, and On the Soul, On Generation and Corruption, Physics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and Poetics in their entirety.

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Article From Journal Of The History Of Ideas, V8, No. 1, January, 1947.

Article From Classical Philology, V41, No. 4, October, 1946.

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The Modern Students Library PHILOSOPHY SERIES THE Modern Students Library has been en larged to include a series of volumes con taining writings of the great philosophers. These volumes are edited by the most competent authorities at home and abroad. The selections are comprehensive and suited to the special needs of students and the general reading public. Each volume contains an introduction giving a brief outline of the system of the author and indicating hisplace in the history of thought. The Philosophy Series is under the general edi torship of Ralph Barton Perry, Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University. For a complete list of THE MODERN STUDENTS LIBRARY see the page following the text CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS THE MODERN STUDENTS LIBRARY SELECTIONS FROM MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHERS i AUGUSTINE TO ALBERT THE GREAT SELECTIONS FROM MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHERS i AUGUSTINE TO ALBERT THE GREAT EDITED AND TRANSLATED, WITH INTRODUCTORY NOTES BY RICHARD McKEON ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LONDON CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS 1980 CONTENTS PAGE GENERAL INTRODUCTION RICHARD MCKEON ix I. SAINT AUGUSTINE Introduction 3 On the Free Will, Book II, 1-46 11 II. BOETHIUS Introduction 65 The Second Edition of the Commentar ies on the Isagoge of Porphyry, Book I . 70 III. JOHN SCOTUS ERIUGENA Introduction 100 On the Division of Nature Book IV, 7-9 106 IV. SAINT ANSELM Introduction 142 Dialogue on Truth 150 V. PETER LOMBARD Introduction 185 The Four Books of Sentences. Book I, Distinction III 189 VI. PETER ABAILARD Introduction 202 The Glosses of Peter Abailard on Por phyry Introduction 208 viii CONTENTS VII. ROBERT GROSSETESTE Introduction 259 On Truth 263 On the Truth of Proposition 282 Onthe Knowledge of God 285 VIII. THE PSEUDO-GROSSETESTE Introduction 288 The Summa of Philosophy 290 IX. ALBERT THE GREAT Introduction 315 On the Intellect and the Intelligible. Book I 326 GENERAL INTRODUCTION The reestimation of medieval culture began, about eighty years ago, to make difficult the continued cur rency of the old strictures against medieval philosophy. Judgments of philosophers in the ordinary tradition had, up to that time, continued almost unchanged from the form in which they first appeared in the writings of sixteenth and seventeenth century philosophers who represented themselves in revolt against a scholasticism, vain, authority-ridden, tenuous, repetitious, logic-chop ping, inadequate to the revolutions of modern thought. Only slowly have these opinions been altered until in more recent years increasingly impressive contributions in scholarly research have made possible the return of medieval speculations to a place of dignity in the history of thought. The noises of these changes have by now spread rather generally in literary and philosophical discussions, but the layman, the student who has no access to writings in latin and greek, and the casual essayist of the day who is tempted to generalities con cerning centuries and cultures, are still limited to the vaguest of secondary and tertiary impressions. Little of the material examined in the reestimation has been translated into the modern languages, and the transla tions in english are perhaps fewer than in most lan guages. Between Augustine and the seventeenth cen tury, twelve hundred years which are crammed with the writings of voluminous workers who initiated some of the most significant, though almostforgotten, developments of philosophic thought, there is almost nothing in eng x GENERAL INTRODUCTION lish save some partial and not always satisfactory trans lations of Anselm and Aquinas. So striking is the paucity that, although the present selections, translated from fifteen philosophers of the middle ages, were made with an eye only to the importance of the pages selected, subsequent inquiry disclosed that none of the passages had ever been translated into english before...

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Richard McKeon was a philosopher of extraordinary creativity who brought profoundly original ideas to bear on more standard ways of thinking and learning. A classicist, medievalist, and revolutionary intellectual, he fashioned an approach to philosophy as a plural conversation among varied traditions of thought, epochs, and civilizations. This second volume of McKeon's selected works demonstrates his approach to inquiry and practice in culture, education, and the arts.
Together, the writings in this book show how McKeon reinvented the ancient arts of rhetoric, grammar, logic, and dialectic for the new circumstances of a global culture. In essays on creation and criticism, for instance, rhetoric is distinguished from grammar and shown to be the master art of invention, judgment, and pluralistic interpretation. Writings on themes of culture, meanwhile, explore the self-invention of mankind as justification for the arts, the development of the humanities, and the organization of the sciences. In the closing essays on education and philosophy, McKeon considers the implications of his ideas for the future of the liberal arts and higher learning.