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I'm not sure what the main point is here. The paper is definitely sketchy on details, and the main idea is definitely simple enough to resemble a lot of other work. I wouldn't be surprised if someone (maybe a certain Swiss researcher) comes out and says, actually, this is the same as this other paper from the early 90s. If you squint hard enough a lot of ideas (especially simple ones) can be seen as being the same as other, older ideas. I'm not too interested in splitting those hairs, really. I'm more curious on whether this eventually leads to something that sets it apart from the SOTA in some interesting way.

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My claim is that this work is simply worse ensembles wrapped in a biologically inspired claims, and that arguments made in support of it by the author compared to other approaches are simply not sound.

By looking at it through that perspective, the issues with the approach become evident, and are fundamental in my opinion.