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"Neural Networks" Don't Work

https://communemag.com/optimize-what/> The course is about “deep neural networks,” a popular class of machine-learning models powered at their core by various optimization techniques. However, the optimization paradigms used here are not of the planning variety. The algorithm designer picks a heuristic objective function that incentivizes a good model, but there are no constraints, and there...

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