Professional Basis of AI Backprop Hypertext Documentation

I've never kept track of bugs and recent changes but now on August 10, 1998 I'm going to start:

• December 1, 2000: Before the program mistakenly used \windows\bp.ini to initialize program parameters instead of c:\windows\bp.ini as documented. Now that's fixed. Plus if c:\windows\bp.ini does not exist the program will try to read bp.ini in the current directory.
• April 28, 2000: Internet Explorer was not working until now.
• February 19, 2000: Help functions now work under Windows 98
• December 14, 1999: Freezing the net wasn't working for rprop and supersab, that's now fixed.
• December 14, 1999: Improved training speed when there are units turned off.
• December 14, 1999: Documented my experimental version of SARPROP that I'm calling XSARPROP at least for the time being.
• December 14, 1999: Updated and expanded recur.html, added sample problems waves.bp, rshort.bp and rshort2.bp.
• November 6, 1998: a sample problem, Winston's famous animal identifying problem was added, see the files animals.bp and animals.dat
• November 5, 1998: layouts of the T, N and W menu boxes were altered so text would not overlap with a desktop size of 640 x 480 and a screen resolution of 640 x 480.
• November 4, 1998: the more box is now moveable.
• November 4, 1998: code was altered to cut down on the error messages for the t command
• November 4, 1998: code was altered to cut down on the error messages for the ran out of unit codes error.
• October 29, 1998: The 12-2-12 encoder problem was added to the examples.
• October 29, 1998: A variation on SARPROP was added and has not yet been documented since I'm not sure its in its final form. From the RPROP window if you set the temperature parameter to a value greater than 0 the program uses SARPROP rather than RPROP. Reasonable values for the temperature are 0.01 up to 1. SARPROP can produce greater chances for convergence and better test set results.
• August 10, 1998: before this version input taken from a file (i filename) would not catch lines longer than the limit of 255.
• August 8, 1998: before this version input taken from a file (i filename) would give an unexpected text error if the data extended across more than one line.
• July 11, 1998: the scrolling has been improved so the screen does not flash however the initial start up screen is typically half blank (the same code works exactly right in the free version).
• July 11, 1998: you can now control the size and position of the program when it comes up by editing the \windows\bp.ini file.
• Around April 3 I found bugs in the scale program for recurrent networks where the standard deviation was not being computed correctly. FIXED.
• Also around April 3 I found a bug in the recurrent network code that made it unable to read in recurrent network patterns that use the h symbol. FIXED.
• On March 17 I found a bug where the program would not read in a program generated .bp file completely. FIXED.
• While compiling a new version as C++ using gcc the compiler turned up a bug where a register variable defaulted to int rather than being REAL. This can cause mistakes in classification problems with online updates and the off by 1 option turned on but only on the training set. FIXED.
• Often the initial page comes up half blank, this is curable by clicking the horizontal scroll bar a few times or typing ctrl-L (the same approach works perfectly in the free 3.1 version). This bug came up when I improved the scrolling of text, the screen no longer flashes, so I figure this one new bug is acceptable all things considered.
• If you type in commands and backspace too far and then repaint the screen the line will have a square in it, apparently this is my fault but I haven't found the cause yet.
• The useless but slightly enlightening tr and trp commands are not working.