My dad was a welder and HVAC technician by day and a bit of an intellectual by night. He was all over expert systems in the late 80’s. I can distinctly remembe

My dad was a welder and HVAC technician by day and a bit of an intellectual by night. He was all over expert systems in the late 80’s. I can distinctly remember him excitedly explaining them to me and I just couldn’t fathom what was interesting about it at all. Then in the early 90’s he started pivoting to neural networks. Then he got killed at work. I didn’t hear about neural networks again for close to 20 years, but I can attest at least someone was stoked about them back then.