LM101-051: How to Use Radial Basis Function Perceptron Software for Supervised Learning[Rerun]

This particular podcast is a RERUN of Episode 20 and describes step by step how to download free software which can be used to make predictions using a feedforward artificial neural network whose hidden units are radial basis functions. This is essentially a nonlinear regression modeling problem. We show the performance of this nonlinear learning machine is substantially better on test data set than the linear learning machine software presented in Episode 13. Basically performance for the linear learning machine was about 13% because the data set was specifically designed to be unlearnable by a linear learning machine, while the performance for the nonlinear machine learning software in this episode is about 70%. Again, I'm a little disappointed that only a few people have downloaded the software and tried things out. You can download windows executable, mac executable, or the MATLAB source code. It's important to actually experiment with real machine learning software if you want to learn about machine learning!  Check out:  www.learningmachines101.com to obtain transcripts of this podcast and download free machine learning software! Or tweet us at: @lm101talk