i went over these resources, and what strikes me as kind of odd, is the fact that the folks involved in this research / exploration tried to evolve both the arc

i went over these resources, and what strikes me as kind of odd, is the fact that the folks involved in this research / exploration tried to evolve both the architecture and the weights. i was naively thinking that architecture should be evolved, while weights should be computed just as it is being done now i.e. via back-propogation etc.