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From: saswss@hotellng.unx.sas.com (Warren Sarle)
Subject: Re: Why more than one hidden layer ?
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In article <32D4F87C.672A@interbusiness.it>, Andrea Partinico <a.partinico@interbusiness.it> writes:
|> The question is if the intelligence of the NN is in the weigths, why I
|> need more than one hidden layer? I can only increase with no limits the
|> number of neurons in the hidden layer?

See "How many hidden layers should I use?" in the Neural Network FAQ, 
part 3 of 7: Generalization, at ftp://ftp.sas.com/pub/neural/FAQ3.html

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