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From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
Subject: Re: Opinions on MATLAB?
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alwang@blue.seas.upenn.edu (Teen Age Riot) writes:
>I was wondering if anyone had any experience in using Matlab, plus the 
>Neural Networks toolbox in work with ANNs.  I'm mainly concerned with 
>implementing nets in practical applications, including image processing, 
>pattern recognition, and diagnosis, but I like the flexibility to change 
>and experiment with new architectures that Matlab would provide over a 
>more polished neural network packages.  Any comments?  I've read what the 
>faq has to say, but I'd just like more opinions.

     Matlab is a useful prototyping tool, but you don't implement
applications in it.  

     The student version is reasonably priced, but I just noticed I
never opened the disk on mine.  I use Mathcad for graphing and such.

					John Nagle
