Looking for a Good Reference on Neural Networks [closed]

Answer 1

See the below three links for Neural Networks using Python:

An Introduction to Neural Networks

Weave a Neural Net with Python

Neural Networks in Pyro

Ron Stephens

Answer 2

The best reference is "Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition", by Bishop. Another good book is "Neural Networks and Learning Machines", by Haykin.

More practical references include the user guides of the Neural Network Toolbox for Matlab or the Open Source Neural Networks C++ Library Flood.

Answer 3

AI-Junkie has a very good intuitive tutorial about neural networks. The site is designed to minimize the required mathematics so that the tutorial is accessible.

Answer 4

There is quite a extensive series of courses avaliable at Heaton Research. The course is for C# (Avaliable also for Java) however it explains the concepts at length, so I suggest you take a look at it even if you will code in python yourself.

The courses are in video format, however most important concepts are also writen down.

Answer 5

FAQ ANN newsgroup comp.ai.neural-nets archieves usable online or offline

Answer 6

I think you have the python bit covered with the answers given above. As for the "or even just theory", Raúl Rojas has a hefty ebook you can download from his wiki page.