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> His great-great-grandfather was George Boole Is that true?
by muglug 9y ago
> His great-great-grandfather was George Boole
Is that true?
- chubot 9y agoThat is a pretty awesome bit of trivia. I assume they did some basic fact checking, and if Hinton's grandfather was not Boole, he probably would notice this in the article and correct it. It certainly seems plausible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole
- muglug 9y agoSorry, this was just a terrible boolean algebra joke that I was unable to delete in time.
- jwilk 9y agoAccording to https://www.geni.com/people/Geoffrey-Hinton-FRS/6000000066972432108 https://www.geni.com/people/Geoffrey-Hinton-FRS/600000006697... , yes: Geoffrey Everest Hinton → Howard Everest Hinton → George Hinton → Mary Ellen Hinton → George Boole
- mmahmad 9y agoIn a video chat between Andrew Ng and Hinton (part of Deeplearning.ai course), Hintom himself confirms this.