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Re:First-Class Automatic Differentiation in Swift by wool_gather on Monday October 22, 2018 @08:35AM (#18274094)
> Neural networks [...] represent the beginning of a fundamental shift in how we write software.

That's an...interesting statement, considering that neural networks are nearly as old as software itself. The original Pitts-McCulloch paper was published in 1943. Active use of them has certainly been ongoing longer than that blog author has been alive.

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Re:First-Class Automatic Differentiation in Swift by tree_of_item on Monday October 22, 2018 @08:41AM (#18274122)
And yet it's true, since they haven't been used in the way they are now. There was no DeepMind in 1943. Computer science stuff usually takes a few decades to mature.
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