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This is very common thinking - people seem to equate the first discussion of a concept with "discovery" with "the important stuff". If that line of thought wer
by __jal 7y ago
This is very common thinking - people seem to equate the first discussion of a concept with "discovery" with "the important stuff".
If that line of thought were consistent, it would credit Babbage, or maybe Turing, as the last computer scientist to do something useful.
- sdenton4 7y agoAnd machine learning is still stuck in the sixties...
- mateo411 7y agoIt's stuck in the 1760s with the publication of Bayes Theorem.
- jascii 7y agoI would say there is a difference between development that significantly change the way we look at things and adapting known principals to changing demands.. Where exactly that boundary lays is, I admit, murky at best.