The Black Magic and Alchemy of Deep Learning – Intuition Machine – Medium

The practice of Deep Learning is vastly outpacing theory. This is despite the incredible number of Deep Learning papers that are published every day on Arxiv. To develop good theoretical results, researchers have to settle with simplified models that are tractable with our current investigative tools. More advanced models that use the latest state-of-the-art techniques are at a level of complexity that are beyond our current mathematical toolbox to understand. The practice therefore of Deep Learning, despite all the heavy math that is employed, is actually more like alchemy than that of chemistry.