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I love this classic document. My favorite part is how easy they all thought the problems were going to be. It was the early days, there were breakthroughs every

I love this classic document. My favorite part is how easy they all thought the problems were going to be. It was the early days, there were breakthroughs everywhere, and in 14 years they were going to land a man on the moon. It also feels a little like reading Andy Warhol's diary and realizing all the famous people knew each other. Never realized they were so close. I hope they got their funding.

mturmon 10y ago
Another document from this bubbly time is this NYT article from July 1958, on a demo of Rosenblatt's perceptron ("NEW NAVY DEVICE LEARNS BY DOING") -- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D01E4D8173DE53BBC4053DFB1668383649EDE http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D01E4D8173DE... "Perceptrons might be fired to the planets as mechanical space explorers."