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One obvious first approach to understanding deep neural networks is to treat them as huge nonlinear programs.

Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sep 2026

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“If we look at deep neural networks,”
“there is of course a very, very obvious way, like a first instincts way and say,”
“well, this is just a huge nonlinear program.”
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