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   From: heath@alumni.brown.edu   
      
   robertoalcantara@gmail.com wrote:   
   > Hi all.   
   >   
   > I am a electronics student and lately I have read some articles about   
   > neural network, already having learned some related basic principles.   
   >   
   > However, something that still can't found on literature and did not   
   > imagine how it could be made is the way to insert analogical data (as   
   > the temperature   from sensor) in a neural network. This would be made   
   > simply converting the signal for digital and adding the bit resultant   
   > of this conversion in the network?  I believe that not.   
   >   
   > If  somebody will be able to explain me this it will be of great.  I   
   > need understand the process ' in the real world ' :-)   
   >   
   > Best regards,   
   > Roberto   
      
   I can think of no compelling reason to convert an analog signal   
   to digital before using it as an input to a NN. However, it probably   
   needs to be preprocessed w.r.t centering, scaling and editing.   
      
   See the comp.ai.neural-nets FAQ.   
      
   ftp://ftp.sas.com/pub/neural/FAQ.html.   
      
   Hope this helps.   
      
   Greg   
      
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