"Sectioned" lesson files
Posted: Sun 2. Jan 2011, 16:55
Hello,
I'm beginning to learn to use Membrain. My aims are twofold:
1) Teach a few tutorials on connectionism starting in 10 days. We used to use tlearn, but development has stopped a long time ago and the binaries are getting difficult to install on new Windows versions, so I'm looking for a replacement
2) Possibly use it for my PhD thesis instead of Lens, if need be. At the moment I'm happy with Lens, which was suggested by one of my advisors, but SOMs have been mentioned as part of plans, in which case I may switch to MemBrain
Lens isn't "graphical" enough for a beginner's tutorial on connectionism, which is why I would prefer to use MemBrain if I switch from tlearn for the tutorials, and Lens development has stopped, too, and there is no community to ask for help, which would be a reason to switch to MemBrain for my thesis.
After this longuish introduction, here comes my first question: Is it possible to add comments within sectioned CSV files? It's nice that patterns can be formatted with line breaks as you wish, but adding comments would be even better, e.g. to specify what each pattern corresponds to in case of distributed representations.
Here is a secondary one, not as important as the first: Pattern names are optional and the docs say they can be applied to "one or more patterns". So what if you want to skip a line, e.g. specify a name for the first and third pattern but not the second one? (The same thing applies to pattern comments.)
Thanks in advance for your help,
Garance
I'm beginning to learn to use Membrain. My aims are twofold:
1) Teach a few tutorials on connectionism starting in 10 days. We used to use tlearn, but development has stopped a long time ago and the binaries are getting difficult to install on new Windows versions, so I'm looking for a replacement
2) Possibly use it for my PhD thesis instead of Lens, if need be. At the moment I'm happy with Lens, which was suggested by one of my advisors, but SOMs have been mentioned as part of plans, in which case I may switch to MemBrain
Lens isn't "graphical" enough for a beginner's tutorial on connectionism, which is why I would prefer to use MemBrain if I switch from tlearn for the tutorials, and Lens development has stopped, too, and there is no community to ask for help, which would be a reason to switch to MemBrain for my thesis.
After this longuish introduction, here comes my first question: Is it possible to add comments within sectioned CSV files? It's nice that patterns can be formatted with line breaks as you wish, but adding comments would be even better, e.g. to specify what each pattern corresponds to in case of distributed representations.
Here is a secondary one, not as important as the first: Pattern names are optional and the docs say they can be applied to "one or more patterns". So what if you want to skip a line, e.g. specify a name for the first and third pattern but not the second one? (The same thing applies to pattern comments.)
Thanks in advance for your help,
Garance