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I think this is one of Munroe's general digs at corporate culture, and not specifically aimed at machine learning, that's just the current buzzword.

• TeMPOraL 9y ago
  It feels like a dig at how people do machine learning these days though. My impression is that people just take TensorFlow and a random neural net, and keep throwing gigabytes of data at it until they feel the results look like they should...
  • sverhagen 9y ago
    Courtesy of "Machine Learning in $(some single digit number) Minutes".
  • TheOtherHobbes 9y ago
    Random Neural Nets should totally be a real thing. I mean more than they already are.
    • mpweiher 9y ago
      At University, we did neural nets via genetic algorithms. Does that count?
      • majewsky 9y ago
        Bingo. :)
    • tincholio 9y ago
      They are, actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_neural_network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_neural_network
    • visarga 9y ago
      > Random Neural Nets should totally be a real thing. Reservoir computing. Some are critical of this method.
    • tgb 9y ago
      There's a long history of that: http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html#id3141241 http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html#id3141241