here’s the spiral trained overnight with the most recent changes and the parameters below. the network error is 0.556669 and there are 16 hidden nodes.

\[Rho] = 0.1;
\[Alpha] = 0.35;
\[Beta] = 0.35;
\[Mu] = 1.5;
\[Zeta] = 0.1;
r = 1.0;
MinError = 0.01;
MinSChange = 0.1;
MinEChange = 0.0005;
loopsize = 100;
maxweightval = 100.;
stopafter = 10000;
candidatenodes = 10;