solipsist comments on Open thread, Nov. 16 - Nov. 22, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: solipsist 17 November 2015 01:13:31PM 4 points [-]

Although the Linux kernel and modern CPUs are piecewise-understandable, whereas neural networks are not.

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 17 November 2015 02:56:41PM *  4 points [-]

Lots of neural networks at an individual vertex level are a logistic regression model, or something similar, -- I think I understand those pretty well. Similarly: "I think I understand 16-bit adders pretty well."