Are the contents of this monograph reliable to the modern theoretical understanding of deel neural networks? [D]

Putting this here instead of the other subs since I figured a question on deep learning theory is out of place there -- I "recently" found (actually, a few months ago but only just got to reading) a monograph claiming to provide a unified theory of deep learning (and possibly SSL) through the lens of information theory, with one of it's headline claims is that you can de