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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;	    Train one epoch with the training data stored in <VAR
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>&#13;	    This function returns the MSE error as it is calculated either before or during the actual training.
	    This is not the actual MSE after the training epoch, but since calculating this will require to go 
	    through the entire training set once more, it is more than adequate to use this value during training.
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