Switch Net 4 neural network

[Luxan]

Your Sparse Net certainly incorporates a few extras, like the anti aliased line drawing.

At present my mind is probably over fitted to previous knowledge and pruning new
knowledge; a long learning curve is predicted.

At least until such time as there are fewer out standing tasks to complete.

[dafhi]

the code's messy, and the network functionality is limited. i wouldn't spend too much time on it

[Luxan]

Thank you for informing me.

If possible, I keep to the readily available functions and operators of the underlying language,
it's generally easier to determine what's going on with the code that way.
Also FreeBasic has quite good documentation.
During the development phase I Iterate through many code samples, keeping most of these so that
I can trace back and reiterate in a slightly different way; always being mindful of the structure and
letting the syntax checking capabilities of FreeBasic guide me.
I haven't quite gotten around to using constructors, these appear to be new with FreeBasic,
I don't recall qb or qb45 having these .

In my cabinet I have the assembly language reference book for the x86 and Z80, these are also written in
a clear and concise manner. Elsewhere I have the hardware description for a FFT chip, this only uses a
few registers to implement all of the control and memory addressing.

And I also use the free Maxima CAS , however I still attempt to keep everything comprehensible in my
code; not always easy.

[dafhi]

nice! i've begun work on single-threaded parallelization.

also have some tooling ideas to help people interested in graphics

[Luxan]

Single-threaded parallelisation, using Freebasic , sounds ambitious .

[dafhi]

from a well known alpha-blending technique

[2023 Oct 19] basis

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blue = (blue * [0 to 255]) and &HFF00

with masking for combined Red Blue

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col = ((col and &HFF00FF) * [0 to 255] ) and &HFF00FF00

[Luxan]

So, we've explored your development of the switchnet 4 , from the initial concept through to
code that produces sensible results.

If I go back to the original illustration of switchnet 4, where the standard fast WHT is shown,
and I use that in the code will I retain the functionality of your evolved code ?

[dafhi]

doubt it - i haven't looked at any of my versions in what feels like ages.

give me a day or so

[Luxan]

Star Trek "The search for Spock"

Scotty:
The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.


Kruge:
No tricks, Kirk. You have one minute.

Luxan
You have ....

[dafhi]

30 seconds?

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Page 1 is a good starting point. it's performant and not 'too' compilcated