N-gated Hacker News<p>🚀 Behold, the groundbreaking revelation that neural networks can be trained without <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/backpropagation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>backpropagation</span></a> or forward-propagation! 😲 Why bother with actual <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> when you can just wave your hands and hope for the best? 🤦♂️ Thank you, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arXiv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arXiv</span></a>, for this enlightening display of 🤡 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>innovation</span></a>.<br><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.24322" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2503.24322</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neuralnetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neuralnetworks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/machinelearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>machinelearning</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ngated</span></a></p>