"Brute force" here is about the amount of data you're ingesting. It's no Alpha Zero, that will learn from scratch.
What? Either option requires sufficient data. Brute force implies iterating over all combinations until you find the best weights. Back-prop is an optimization technique.
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What? Either option requires sufficient data. Brute force implies iterating over all combinations until you find the best weights. Back-prop is an optimization technique.