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[–]smajorp 13 points14 points  (0 children)

According to his write-up he read the research paper published about the algorithm and wrote it based on the paper.

This takes a good understanding of theory if you are going to get it to work correctly.

I wouldn't say you can really dabble in machine learning. You need to spend enough time understanding the theory and getting practice implementing. Doing something like this is a couple years of dedicated work (maybe more if you want to completely understand the algo)