This is pretty hilarious. I just noticed that this is published by NCC Group. (Former NCC Group pentester here, and now I happen to be an ML engineer.) I don't

This is pretty hilarious. I just noticed that this is published by NCC Group. (Former NCC Group pentester here, and now I happen to be an ML engineer.) I don't think HN's negativity is warranted. But there's also some confusion, which I'd like to help clear up. People here seem confused about "Why? Why do this?" The answer is simply that it's an interesting problem. That's it. It doesn't need to be important, or a promising research direction, or mention low bit precision, or quantized networks, or be performant, or tackle a complex PRNG. It just needs to be an interesting problem which you can solve. Love of ML is no more complicated than that. Knowing the fellas at NCC, I'm quite certain that they did this mostly out of intellectual curiosity rather than some grand plan to advance the state of the art of ML. And I think that's wonderful. More people should get into ML with exactly that mindset.