It was. Dumb too. Because of the limitations of memory and computing power at the time you had to constantly tweak parameters to optimize learning speed, avoid overfitting, avoid local optimums, etc. Only to find that the best performing model was the one generated by your 2 AM code with the fundamental flaw and the random parameters you chose while high.
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It was. Dumb too. Because of the limitations of memory and computing power at the time you had to constantly tweak parameters to optimize learning speed, avoid overfitting, avoid local optimums, etc. Only to find that the best performing model was the one generated by your 2 AM code with the fundamental flaw and the random parameters you chose while high.