A 'Brief' History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning (andreykurenkov.com)
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netvarun Sep 22, 2017 | on: Coding the History of Deep Learning | context

I'd also recommend Andrey Kurenkov's well written multi-part series on the history of neural nets: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10910887

[The author of the paper mentioned on parent comment is Jürgen Schmidhuber - inventor of LSTMs and a very colorful character in neural land. The NYTimes did a nice profile on him a while back: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/27/technology/artificial-int... HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13066646]

lovelearning Jan 4, 2017 | on: Ask HN: Does anyone know of a good technical history of… | context

I remember an informative article series [1] that was posted here some months ago. Previous discussion on it [2].

[1]: http://www.andreykurenkov.com/writing/a-brief-history-of-neu...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10910887