Reply to post: For those who have interest in the matter

For those who have interest in the matter

...since I first read Santa Fe Institute's Introduction to the Theory of Neural Computation instead of going on holiday or actually studying for the exam, NNs have indeed evolved:

Deep Learning: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications. Berlin, June 2017: "Information Theory of Deep Learning" by Naftali Tishby

as written about in Quanta Magazine last month (I thought it was last week? what's wrong with me)

New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Learning

The above comes with a gratuitous image of a pixel-ized bulldog in a kind of rum bottle.