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If there ever was an example of a terrible personality getting in the way of career, Schmidhuber is most definitely it. You may have had many brilliant ideas,
by ur-whale 1y ago
If there ever was an example of a terrible personality getting in the way of career, Schmidhuber is most definitely it.
You may have had many brilliant ideas, but everyone makes an abrupt 180 when they see the tip your beard turn the corner at conferences, that can't be a good signal for getting awards.
- cycomanic 1y agoYou do see how your statement is problematic when talking about scientific attribution and scientific prizes for achievements? I'd also point out that people that point out inconvenient truth are often not popular, that does not make them wrong though (in the general sense, I don't know enough about the foundations of ML to pass judgement here).
- ur-whale 1y agoI most certainly hear you, but : you have a completely idealistic point of view. Which is a quasi-synonym for unrealistic. As much as we'd all love the real world to be simple, rational and just, it simply ain't, and on a very vast scale. As an instance of that general principle: people who do excellent work but lack basic social skills stay stuck 99% of the time. And history is littered with their anonymous corpses.