file: ~/courses/spring2002/434/434_exam_study_update.txt RWN 03/18/02 Some ENEE 434 Exam study points updated 1. Perceptron problem - given inputs, initial weights, activation function, and desired minimum error, find weights. 2. Perceptron problem - know how to handle delay, epochs and erroe plotting. 3. Perceptron problem - means and effects of scaling of inputs. 4. Hopfield smooth activation problem - effects and means of choosing symmmetry in weight matrix; effects of different input conductances and amplifier gains. 5. Hopfield saturated activition problem - effects of different choices of activation functions [especially satlin, satlins, and tanh], weight matrices, bias choices. Number of stable exemplars possible.