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Good. I hope to see more of them posted to HN.

if you are interested in this type of analysis are you familiar with the tishby papers? you will at the very least find them enjoyable/mind opening... but some of his key claims are probably contradicted by empirical results.

the original paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02406

a refutation:(with very harsh/unprofessional words by tishby in counter-refutation)

https://openreview.net/forum?id=ry_WPG-A-&noteId=ry_WPG-A-

I found his talk on youtube, remarkable:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL07WEc2TRI

He's a good speaker/teacher but I think there are serious problems with his work- mainly that a lot of his results collapse when tested on more general architectures.

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