relationship with deep nets or neural nets and splines this goes way back to pre the the previous deep net winter but I think that we have you know particularly we've identified a combat a collection of particularly useful splines for modern deep nets okay so just let's jump in and talk about the basic set up so we all know that deep nets solve a function approximation problem we're trying to use training data to approximate the prediction function from data to some prediction might be a regression problem might be a classification problem and we