A guest post by @MaxMaPichler, MSc student in the Group for Theoretical Ecology / UR Artificial neural networks, especially deep neural networks and (deep) convolutions neural networks, have become increasingly popular in recent years, dominating most machine learning competitions since the early 2010’s (for reviews about DNN and (D)CNNs see LeCun, Bengio, & Hinton, 2015). In ecology,…