here is the output from an overnight run on the spiral problem after the changes i described yesterday:

15 hidden nodes were added and the network’s error was 0.318231. this is an improvement in both number of nodes and error over the previous spiral test. also, it trained for a much smaller amount of time. here are the parameters used:
\[Rho] = 1.0;
\[Alpha] = 0.35;
\[Beta] = 0.35;
\[Mu] = 1.75;
\[Zeta] = 0.01;
r = 1.0;
MinError = 0.01;
MinSChange = 0.01;
MinEChange = 0.00005;
ConsecutiveSChange = 3;
ConsecutiveEChange = 6;
loopsize = 100;
maxweightval = 100.;
stopafter = 10000;