Jim Salter (@jimsalter@fosstodon.org)
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Attached: 1 image So, Neuralink got FDA approval for human trials, and a certain fanbase is VERY excited about that

Commodification of everything you think off Past/Present/Future.

https://fosstodon.org/@jimsalter/110441094176772187

Perturbed gradient descent with backprop is what we were doing in the 90s. It feels like there are some new tricks but mostly what I see is the result of GPUs and cheap memory.

I volunteer at a summer science camp and 90% of the projects are “I pointed AI at this problem and…”, nobody seems to be even trying for analytical approaches any more. I’m ready for a new fad.

Anybody else remember when it was all wavelets all the time? That was kinda fun.

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