Neural Nets: NI Labs or otherwise

[torekp]

I just started playing with NI Labs -- Neural Nets, having just now figured out that you DON'T need 8.6 OR 8.6 realtime to use it. Vanilla 8.5 works just fine.

Anyway, (A) this is cool, and (B) I'm a newbie big time. There's an official NI web page to discuss this, but it doesn't have much activity. How about LAVA members?

If anyone can recommend a good Neural Nets For Dummies type book, especially one that discusses whichever variety of network NI Labs is using, I'm all ears.

I made one important discovery so far - it pays, big time, to replace NI's Read From XML with the free Read/Write Anything VIs from Moore Good Ideas. Huge performance boost when you work with big data sets.