"set_to_random_numbers" is much less descriptive than np.random.normal...the former doesn't tell me what distribution the random numbers come from. Agreed that

"set_to_random_numbers" is much less descriptive than np.random.normal...the former doesn't tell me what distribution the random numbers come from. Agreed that the weights should be stored in a list or the like in real life rather than duplicating code for each layer, but the examples in the blog post are clearly intentionally minimizing abstractions as much as possible so that an untrained reader can immediately tell exactly what each line is doing. It's obviously not intended to scale to larger models.