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by Solvency 1099 days ago
Why couldn't mathematical proofs/models have predicted or revealed this to be the case back then?
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On the contrary, there was a mathematical proof that one-hidden-layer neural network with nonlinearity is enough to represent any function. Using more than 1 hidden seemed a waste.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...

How??