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Acceptable-Cress-374 t1_ixgmn8o wrote

Does anyone remember the model of the phone that had a touch-screen before the iPhone became a thing?

Doing research in NNs in the 90s was purely theoretical, and anything done then had 0 real-world application at-the-time. What we have now are SOTA models that are being deployed in production all over the place, a lot of business use them daily and amateurs like us get to deploy on a cheap GPU and play around with the tech.

With all due respect to the pioneers of the 90s, this is tech that we can see, smell and test ourselves.

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arg_max t1_ixh2wrq wrote

thats not how scientific citation works though. just because people in the 90s didn't train on JFT-3B and got close to 90% imagenet ACC doesn't mean its purely theoretical. And if ideas were presented earlier they should be cited.

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[deleted] t1_ixi2ee8 wrote

Ideas are cheap, implementation is everything.

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Acceptable-Cress-374 t1_ixh4mo5 wrote

If they're after citations why not simply say so?

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respeckKnuckles t1_ixhedyv wrote

Uh...they do

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Acceptable-Cress-374 t1_ixipz7u wrote

Well, in that case my bad. I don't do academia, and am not up-to-speed with what's the common way to cite previous work & such. To me, a layman, the blog post read more like whining and shaking a fist at the clouds and not like asking for proper citations. Again, my bad if I misread that.

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mietminderung t1_ixh34zt wrote

> Doing research in NNs in the 90s was purely theoretical, and anything done then had 0 real-world application at-the-time.

Yet, Yann Le Cunn is cited for his work in the 90s too.

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