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		moultano on Oct 20, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t This isn't true. A loss function that asymptotes can also have no minima, which commonly used loss functions do.

bananaface on Oct 21, 2020 [–]

Doesn't the fact the network is discrete (floats have a maximum precision) mean this isn't actually the case? There's a finite number of states the net can be in, and one (or more) is best.

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