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Artificial Neural Networks made easy with the FANN library

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Neural networks are typically associated with specialised applications, developed only by select groups of experts. This misconception has had a highly negative effect on its popularity. Hopefully, the FANN library will help fill this gap.
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>&#13;            Shortcut connections are connections that skip layers. A fully connected network with shortcut
	    connections, is a network where all neurons are connected to all neurons in later layers. 
	    Including direct connections from the input layer to the output layer.
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>&#13;	    The <VAR
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	    output layer. This parameter is followed by one parameter for each layer telling how
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