I think it's a trap of visual elegance. When you start thinking of models this way you miss the way a lot of models are actually written. E.g. how do you repr

I think it's a trap of visual elegance. When you start thinking of models this way you miss the way a lot of models are actually written. E.g. how do you represent an online fine-tuning process? I want to randomly switch between a reference impl and an approximation method, but when using the approx method I want to back-propagate so that it gets better over time. full disclosure: I've written plenty of these little visualizers and also fallen for the trap of "everything should be a declarative graph."