Big datastructures in functional programming

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Published on 2010-05-22T03:00:03Z Indexed on 2010/05/22 3:10 UTC
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I'm newbie in Functional Programming.

I have a huge neural network with thousands of neurons and every connection between neurons has its weight. I have to update these weights very often, several thousand times per learning session.

Is FP still applicable here? I mean in fp we can't modify variables and only able to return new variables not changing previous values. Does this mean I have to recreate whole network on every weight update?

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