[dooglius]

The problem is that the model was invented in this paper itself, and doesn't actually seem to relate to any actual ML algorithm. Admittedly, I didn't read the paper itself so this may be the overreach on the article's part.

[zwaps]

I don't think that can be true. If it was, it were like this:

Hey guys, here's an algorithm. Oh by the way, we can not prove that this algorithm does something useful, and their can you.

gets published in nature

Talk about bang for the buck