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. Overview of PLearn
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Introduction
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Developer CVS access
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Additional tools for developers
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. Basics
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PLearn for Matrix-Vectors Operations
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Creation and Basic Manipulations
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Mathematical Manipulations
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Loading and saving
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How to create a PLearner?
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What?
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Where?
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How?
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And now?
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A build_() that works in every situation
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Useful members and methods defined in PLearner class
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Datasets
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Testing phase
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How to get the dataset?
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How to manage the dataset?
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If you need gradients on a cost function...
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. Intermediate
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Low-level concepts
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Important compilation flags
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Smart Pointers
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How to subclass a PLearn
Object
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Object
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Creating a basic class deriving from Object
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Setting option fields and calling build()
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A generic way of setting options from “outside”
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Building an object from its specification in a file
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Human description versus saved object
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Matrix-Vectors Operations with Gradients
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Introduction to Var
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Creating
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Manipulating
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Loading and saving
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Func
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Online Learning
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OnlineLearningModule
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RandomVar
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Function-like types
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CostFunc
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StatsIt
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Optimizers
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Miscalleanous utilities
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. Managing software growth
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A few words on the build system
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How to limit compilation and link dependencies
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Compilation dependency versus link dependency
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How dependencies tend to creep in, and ways around them
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Regarding external library dependencies
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Evolving software in a backward-compatible way
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. PLearn coding guidelines and philosophy
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A few words on C++
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Design goals and priorities
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Usage of C++ features in PLearn
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Usage of the C++ standard library in PLearn
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Naming conventions
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Final word
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. Debugging
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Compilation problems
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Frequently encountered compilation errors
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Linking problems
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Clean runtime errors
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Dirty runtime errors
