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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Neural network placement policy, round II
From:       Cristian Tibirna <ctibirna () total ! net>
Date:       1999-12-20 1:51:46
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Excellent

I've put a news item on our site (listing this among others).

I'd do things a bit different, though:

- make the nnet an own object, and make it plug in the workspace manager
on need (placement choice change).
- put all the numbers in resetNeuralNetwork in the config file. This will
make the code cleaner and would allow for future changes of the reset
dataset without having to recompile.

Did you thoroughly check the code? What happens kwin isn't configured to
use neuralNet and then it tries to load or save the trained data? (Sorry,
didn't have time to check the code now).

You should make sure addition of neuralNet doesn't lower the performance
of kwin (when using other placement than neural)  compared with kwin not
containing the code. Sorry to insist so much on this. KWin is a central
piece of the desktop and people were keeping whining that has performance
issues even when it wasn't true.

Cristian Tibirna     : ctibirna@total.net     : www.total.net/~ctibirna
PhD Student          : ctibirna@gch.ulaval.ca : web.gch.ulaval.ca/~ctibirna
KDE contact - Canada :  tibirna@kde.org       : www.kde.org

On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Nicolas Brodu wrote:

> I turned the code for neural network placement policy into a patch for Krash,
> so that anyone can try it now...
> 
> You'll find it there: 
> http://www-eleves.iie.cnam.fr/brodu/krash_neural/index.html
> 
> Problems, solutions, and details are on the web page. 
> 
> We're trying with to achieve a better initial training, but the current code
> is already fun enough. If nobody objects, I'll commit it before going, with
> the default kept to 'Smart', so that:
> - It changes nothing, since 'Smart' will still be used.
> - Anybody who wish can turn it on by modifying a line in options.cpp while
> the kwm kcontrol module hasn't been ported.
> - Don't have to go through a lot of changes in kwin when I'm back...
> 
> 
> BTW, I don't seem to receive mails anymore from the kde lists after Krash.
> Should I resubscribe or is this just temporary?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Nicolas
> -- 
> A shortcut is the longest distance between two points. (unknown author)
> 
> 

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