An RNN is something that one person can create and then fail to understand. That's not like the Linux kernel at all.
Correction: An RNN is something that a person working with a powerful general optimizer can create and then fail to understand.
A human without the optimizer can create RNNs by hand - but only of the small and simple variety.
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