[sthatipamala]

The judges in these technical cases can be quite sophisticated and absolutely do learn terms of art. See Oracle v. Google (Java API case)

[anshumankmr]

As I looked up the judge for this one(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Alsup) who was a hobbyist basic programmer, one would need a judge who coded MNIST as a passtime hobby if that is the case.

[king_magic]

a smart judge who is minimally tech savvy could learn to train a model to predict MNIST in a day or two