I'd also recommend Andrey Kurenkov's well written multi-part series on the history of neural nets: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10910887 https://news.yc

I'd also recommend Andrey Kurenkov's well written multi-part series on the history of neural nets: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10910887 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10910887 [The author of the paper mentioned on parent comment is Jürgen Schmidhuber - inventor of LSTMs and a very colorful character in neural land. The NYTimes did a nice profile on him a while back: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/27/technology/artificial-intelligence-pioneer-jurgen-schmidhuber-overlooked.html?mcubz=0 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/27/technology/artificial-int... HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13066646 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13066646]