[kafkaesq]

A better title would have been "Using ML to rank and classify images according to aesthetics." Which in itself is quite impressive. But nowhere do we see indications that these algorithms "understand" the images, in any meaningful sense.

[ibuildthings]

The author here. I used the term "understanding", not as in machines understanding the images, but more as scientific attempt in understanding aesthetics. ( <snippet from the text>"empowering me to develop systems for understanding images from a computational and scientific perspective"</snippet ends> ).

[kafkaesq]

Fair enough -- thanks for clarifying.