I want to learn how to create a neural net. I'm trying to find out, and part of that effort has been adding AI For Game Developers to my Safari bookshelf.
I was also playing around with Neural Nets, but I quickly learned that the existing CPAN modules had documentation that assumed quite a bit of knowledge about NNs. To that end, I wrote AI::NeuralNet::Simple (for some reason, I have a lot of Simple.pm modules.) That module uses Inline::C to implement an algorithm inspired by the excellent book AI Application Programming by M. Tim Jones. I highly recommend that book as the explanations are lucid and it comes with complete programs, written in C. It also has a CD with the programs on disk, if you want to learn more.
If you look at my module, ignore the test failure. Someone's Perl installation was borked. My code compiled and ran just fine after they fixed it.
