That's how I felt until I watched a few videos about the low level details of neural networks. It's just basic statistics and calculus! Not just in a "it's turt

That's how I felt until I watched a few videos about the low level details of neural networks. It's just basic statistics and calculus! Not just in a "it's turtles all the way down" kind of way, but in a "18th century king could have hired Leibniz and a thousand monks to run training on papyrus" kind of way. Relative to impact, no other field of CS has implementation details as underwhelming as deep learning IMO. The magic is in the GPU and the high level libraries that let you make entire models with a few lines of Python.