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 *. There’s a difference between spare GPUs and GPUs you’ve accidentally mined Ethereum on.
 *. Not all NaN is a bug – sometimes it’s a feature.
 *. “Do you have a checkpoint?” means “I can’t fix this training run.”
-*. “They’ll never expect this activation function” means “I want to try something non-differentiable.”
+*. “We propose a novel method” means “This has no sound mathematical basis.”
 *. If it’s a hack and it works, it’s still a hack and you’re lucky.
 *. If it will run inference, it will double as a space heater.
 *. The size of the grant is inversely proportional to the reproducibility of the results.