> It's just alternating layers of affine transformations and nonlinearity with lots of tricks and improved routing.
and a computation is just 0s and 1s, with lots of if/then statements.
and a computation is just 0s and 1s, with lots of if/then statements.
the point is: anything complex can be dismissed as "just x,y,z" if you dont appreciate the massive body of work behind it.
i made that point because OP observed that "ml is just affine transformations" or something to that effect. yes, that's one way to frame it - if youre okay overlooking roughly 30 years of research.