Comment by enriquto

I never understood the obsessive emphasis on the training of neural networks. Many people see neural networks as objects that you train. But this is just a small thing that you can do with them. Neural networks are, first and foremost, objects that compute. This computation can be tuned by setting some parameters, and one way to set these parameters is by training. But this is not the only way, and it is not necessarily the more interesting one.