Likely may need to go into a utility lib about brain.js

[robertleeplummerjr]

Conversation started here: harthur/brain#72 (comment)

[robertleeplummerjr]

As is also mentioned in the comment above you mention: "convolutional neural networks are better suited for the example provided with that pull request", what type of neural network is this library? Just curious.

[nickpoorman]

@robertleeplummerjr - You should be able to tell from the code that it's a simple single / muli-layer perceptron (feed forward with back propagation).

[robertleeplummerjr]

@nickpoorman Thanks for the explanation and pointers. How does the proposed solution in the comment sit with you?

[nickpoorman]

Frankly, since y'all forked this repo you're free to do what you want. IMO your likely function is just a way of normalizing data (pre-processing) and really has nothing to do the artificial neural network.

For example, my one-hot library does something similar. It doesn't need to be a method on the instantiated "brain" object or even part of the repo, --you can always reference any good pre-processing libraries in your README if you so choose..

[robertleeplummerjr]

I completely agree. Will be opening a PR soon to address this. I really appreciate the feedback.

On a seperate note: one thing I love about this library so much is that it removes itself, giving you the raw neural net here: https://github.com/harthur-org/brain.js/blob/4389a60322d738cb679b6988a28c8332c50ebeba/lib/neuralnetwork.js#L387

I would be very interested in doing something with convolutional neural networks, perhaps something that could be done in a sister project.