Virgil's "Aeneid" invites its reader to identify with the Roman nation whose origins and destiny it celebrates. But, as J. D. Reed argues in "Virgil's Gaze", the great Roman epic satisfies this identification only indirectly - if at all. In retelling the story of Aeneas' foundational journey from Tr[...]
Artificial neural networks are nonlinear mapping systems whose structure is loosely based on principles observed in the nervous systems of humans and animals. The basic idea is that massive systems of simple units linked together in appropriate ways can generate many complex and interesting behavior[...]