Making friends with Axiom
For the sake of my newly found interest in neural networks, I need to go back to the basics first, including certain elements of linear algebra and mathematical analysis. Without this most basic foundation, I will not go very far with the topic.
In order make myself a bit more efficient and the exercise easier to follow, I wanted to employ a computer system to do all the boring stuff. In this view, I found Axiom to be a decent toy to play with.
There is little chance that I will ever need more from the system than it now offers; 30 years of development have been invested in it. Axiom was originally developed by IBM and open sourced in 2002.
The documentation allows to get started fairly quickly. Unfortunately, the Windows interface leaves a lot to desire, and the graphics module is not available; everything would work just fine on a Linux system, though (I may need a Linux box a lot sooner that I expected).
I look forward to making some progress on the weekend.
