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I think this is one of Munroe's general digs at corporate culture, and not specifically aimed at machine learning, that's just the current buzzword.

It feels like a dig at how people do machine learning these days though. My impression is that people just take TensorFlow and a random neural net, and keep throwing gigabytes of data at it until they feel the results look like they should...

Random Neural Nets should totally be a real thing.

I mean more than they already are.

They are, actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_neural_network

At University, we did neural nets via genetic algorithms. Does that count?

Bingo. :)

> Random Neural Nets should totally be a real thing.

Reservoir computing. Some are critical of this method.

There's a long history of that: http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html#id3141241

Courtesy of "Machine Learning in $(some single digit number) Minutes".

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