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I laughed because it was funny. Then I laughed again harder when I realized that it was supposed to be funny.
The first table in the whitepaper - "Commie open source license" ... excellent
It's kind of funny, I guess.
But I didn't assume it was a farce. I was genuinely excited to see the implementation, because there is something unique about the transparency and interaction you can have with an excel workbook. It's almost like a GUI for a lisp REPL. Even if I am too dumb to understand the actual c code, I can see the relevant numbers being crunched, how they relate, and more.
So... "good one. you got me."
But even as I sit here as the butt of the joke, I find myself wishing your link had been sincere.
Oh boy. I'm the second author. The official announcement will be in April 1st at the SIGBOVIK conference ( http://sigbovik.org/2016 ), but I guess someone broke the press embargo! By the way: It works, try it ;)
Don't want to be an asshole but it really can't be called Deep Learning if it doesn't do backprob. Deep inference, at best. The paper reads like a bad joke.
Backprop may be added in the future. Meanwhile you can just adjust the weights directly! (They're in the "layer*" sheets).