One thing to note is that the authors are foremost very well known machine learning researchers. Reading Bottou's PhD thesis (in French unfortunately for most H

One thing to note is that the authors are foremost very well known machine learning researchers. Reading Bottou's PhD thesis (in French unfortunately for most HN readers) was kind of depressing in a way, when you see the kind of things he did 20 years ago in an environment which seemed more powerful than what we have today. This environment was not lush I think, but it certainly was the inspiration for i: some info in Englisg at http://leon.bottou.org/projects/lush http://leon.bottou.org/projects/lush