[srcreigh]

The Conway's game of life example isn't so impressive. The network isn't really reverse engineering rules, it's being trained on data that is equivalent to the rules. It's sort of like teaching + by giving it 400 data points triplets (a,b,c) with 1 <= a,b <= 20 and c = a + b.

[andrewflnr]

It wasn't meant to be much more than a sanity check, as I read it anyway.