@BioMan @BurgersMcSlopshot I've recently had the chance to look at someone who was really proud that they used a neural net to create a forward/backward mapping through a space of 3 controls to ~50 controls that actually drove the system.

I took their files, loaded them into Onnx, and ... they would have been way better off using PCA, because the neural net is approximating a simple linear system.

I think this is relevant, and the sort of "don't understand" we're talking about.

@BioMan exactly. And yet here we are hammering square pegs into round holes.

If this product makes it to market in its current shape that's gonna increase hardware costs, all because the blindly throw ML at everything bandwagon.