A fun quote from the paper: ”We also challenge you to improve these results. With modern methods, we have now exceeded LeCun et al.’s 1998 accuracy (MNIST imag

A fun quote from the paper: ”We also challenge you to improve these results. With modern methods, we have now exceeded LeCun et al.’s 1998 accuracy (MNIST images 9,930 correct, ours 9,949), on a computer from 1982, so perhaps we can again move the needle a few years forward?”