I see your point when it comes to paper publication in general, but I feel that your post is very unwarranted with respect to the original post: DeepMind has re

I see your point when it comes to paper publication in general, but I feel that your post is very unwarranted with respect to the original post: DeepMind has recruited top-quality theoretical researchers from public institutions, it is not just experimental work which your average Joe could do with a few guesses. These researchers published a lot of theoretical papers before they were recruited, and they still publish a lot of them now that they are working at DeepMind, but they have more computational hardware to apply their ideas. Here is just one uncurated example of a publication: - https://deepmind.com/research/publications/Taylor-Expansion-Policy-Optimization https://deepmind.com/research/publications/Taylor-Expansion-... - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.06259.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.06259.pdf