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Re:Freewire: An Experiment with Freely Wired Neural Networks by optimalsolver on Friday March 19, 2021 @09:51PM (#26520058)
Except random search was found to outperform state-of-the-art neural architecture search algorithms:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08142

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Re:Freewire: An Experiment with Freely Wired Neural Networks by greatgoat420 on Friday March 19, 2021 @11:40PM (#26520641)
The story is more about how a random set of weights WILL have preconceptions of how to play. If you look at condition numbers or spectra of random normal matrices they are very much not random.
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