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news_1776on On the Expressive Power of Deep Learning: A Tensor Analysis

tldr, anyone? I'm interested in the field and have been learning about it, but I don't really understand this paper.

news_1776on Fragments of World's Oldest Koran May Predate Muhammad

That's a lot of "facts".

news_1776on Fragments of World's Oldest Koran May Predate Muhammad

Do you think Muslims will trust a group that is to them a bunch of random British researchers that just happened to come across an old piece of parchment with Arabic writing just lying around in a British university? Also this is coming from a country that to them seems biased against them. That my friend is just plain crazy.

news_1776on Fragments of World's Oldest Koran May Predate Muhammad

This is highly unlikely as the parchment contains diacritical marks which were not introduced until 4 caliphs/leaders after the Prophet who had all already died/been killed. This has been mentioned by many critics as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_diacritics#history

This seems more like a means to incite Muslims rather than science.