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Schmidhuber claims to have invented a lot of things. It's almost a running gag at this point.
by mardifoufs 4y ago
Schmidhuber claims to have invented a lot of things. It's almost a running gag at this point.
- uoaei 4y agoAnd yet somehow his claims always bear some truth. I understand the comments about boys crying wolf, but it's hard to ignore the facts on the ground.
- caycep 4y agonot having a PHD in ML, it's hard for me to evaluate his claims, but how valid are all the obscure papers that he brings up? Did someone actually invent backprop in 1930 in some random corner of the former Soviet Union? Or is it a case of "true but misses the point"?
- uoaei 4y agoOften it is indeed the latter, although it is interesting that sometimes despite that it gets at the core of our contemporary understanding of the concepts in question.