idk if there will be that much of a winter, but i would welcome it in the late 90s and early 2000s, neural network had a significant stigma for being dead ends

idk if there will be that much of a winter, but i would welcome it in the late 90s and early 2000s, neural network had a significant stigma for being dead ends and were unpromising grads were sent - people didn't want to go there because it was a self-fulfilled prophecy that if you went to research ANNs then you were a loser, and you were seen as such, and in academia that is all you need to be one but, in real life, they worked sure, not for everything because of hardware limitations among other things, but these things worked and they were a useful arrow in your quiver as everybody else just did whatever was fashionable at the time (simulated annealing, SVMs, conditional random fields, you name it) hype or no hype, if you know what you are doing and the stuff you do works, you will be okay