To everyone : stop to criticize other people's work about "elegance", both on internet and in real life. This is not NYC nor Paris Fashion Week.
Criticisms about the estheticism of an algorithm do not make sense. We have objective metrics to judge codes and algorithms, such as Big O notation, resource usages, epoch, reproductability, etc. The questions the R&D team try to answer are
a) "Is this possible?", and b) "Is it efficient?".
This has nothing to do with estheticism. Simpleness is not a metric.
Neural networks are not simple to understand nor use. The Deep Mind team shows that they are able to use them as building blocks in different places of a bigger algorithm to solve a goal, iteratively. All of these results required time, effort and ressources to obtain. They are not obligated to share their results with the public, so now just stop to criticize without even suggesting a better solution.
Criticisms about the estheticism of an algorithm do not make sense. We have objective metrics to judge codes and algorithms, such as Big O notation, resource usages, epoch, reproductability, etc. The questions the R&D team try to answer are
a) "Is this possible?", and b) "Is it efficient?".
This has nothing to do with estheticism. Simpleness is not a metric.
Neural networks are not simple to understand nor use. The Deep Mind team shows that they are able to use them as building blocks in different places of a bigger algorithm to solve a goal, iteratively. All of these results required time, effort and ressources to obtain. They are not obligated to share their results with the public, so now just stop to criticize without even suggesting a better solution.