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plocco-tocco t1_ixgibh7 wrote

There are thousands of people now going through Schmidhuber's old papers looking for the new revolution in ML

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gwern t1_ixhmjmb wrote

Sadly, it turns out to be easier to invent the new revolution from scratch than to merely implement SMDH96's old revolution.

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RobbinDeBank OP t1_ixhuw1g wrote

Not to mention you need to identify which of all his thousands of works are revolutionary. Might as well just reinvent it

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TheInfelicitousDandy t1_ixi0q8a wrote

Also not to mention the entire process that happens after finding the revolutionary idea where you have to look at it with enough squint to be able to say 'this would be applicable to this other domain or task if we just change a few things', then the 8 pages of explanation you need to write up explaining how the changes are not novel but direct and banal outcomes of the original work (when interpreting the original work with the necessary squint).

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