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A comment on Deep Learning, the Curse of Dimensionality, and Autoencoders.

Re:Deep Learning, the Curse of Dimensionality, and Autoencoders by galapago on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @07:00AM (#9302761)
> Autoencoders are an extremely exciting new approach to unsupervised learning

They are not new.

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Re:Deep Learning, the Curse of Dimensionality, and Autoencoders by jostmey on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @09:22AM (#9303296)
Yeah, but some of methods that make the technique successful are less than ten years old.
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