Re: Hand coding weights

["Randall C. O'Reilly" <oreilly@grey.colorado.edu>]

"Stephen J. Read" <read@usc.edu> writes:
> I have a fairly detailed network for which I would like to handcode 
> the weights, sort of like the jets and the sharks example.  As far as 
> I can figure out there are two possible ways to do this.  One way 
> would be to save the weights from the network and then edit the file 
> in a text editor and then read the weights back in.  A second way 
> would be to use the menus to access the weights to each individual 
> node.  However, when I have used this technique in the past it was 
> very difficult to keep track of which weights I was looking at and 
> changing.  Both ways seem fairly tedious and error prone. Is there 
> any other way to access the weights and change them relatively easily?

You could also write a script to set the weights for you.. but I find
the "edit the weights file" approach to be the most straightforward --
if you give the units names they will show up in the file -- makes it
easier to locate the units.

				- Randy