A convnet, you say? In C++?! FROM SCRATCH??!! About a week ago, I was at work with absolutely nothing to do - even the office pool table was (is still) broken. If you subscribe to the creationist agenda, you might refer to what happened next as a divine calling. Being a Darwinist myself, I attribute it to mind numbing boredom crippling all rational thought processes. See, over the course of last week, I implemented a machine learning model - one that is notoriously hard to debug when things do not work - in, what perhaps is, the most unforgiving programming language known to man