In fact I am generally ignorant on the topic of who invented the transistor, nor do I in general particularly care about who invented what.
The quest for academic fame is something I've always utterly failed to understand.
And, if it the author was anyone but JS I'd not have said anything.
What honks me off about this guy though is to see a someone who did in fact do early impactful work on recurrent neural networks believe that:
a) that automatically gives him some sort of special status wrt the rest of humanity
b) because he didn't get the recognition he believes he is due, has completely stopped doing anything useful in the field, turning instead into an absolute crank that every one in the AI field makes fun of, and with a holy mission to rewrite history to assign credit where credit is due everywhere he believes there was an injustice.
c) every time I see someone with an exceptionally well-working brain waste their time because of ego or sheer stubbornness on shite like this instead of using it to do more interesting work, it makes me very sad.
Schmidhuber is a textbook example of this, and the other perfect example of this is Chomsky, a very smart man, who basically - because of his oversized ego and profound stubbornness - ended up wasting his entire life energy working on a linguistic dead-end AND a political philosophy dead-end.
I have a real hard time understanding how the brain of that kind of folks operates, being so bright on certain axes and totally and utterly dumb on others, especially the total lack of self-awareness.
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I'm not criticizing the article at all.
In fact I am generally ignorant on the topic of who invented the transistor, nor do I in general particularly care about who invented what.
The quest for academic fame is something I've always utterly failed to understand.
And, if it the author was anyone but JS I'd not have said anything.
What honks me off about this guy though is to see a someone who did in fact do early impactful work on recurrent neural networks believe that:
a) that automatically gives him some sort of special status wrt the rest of humanity
b) because he didn't get the recognition he believes he is due, has completely stopped doing anything useful in the field, turning instead into an absolute crank that every one in the AI field makes fun of, and with a holy mission to rewrite history to assign credit where credit is due everywhere he believes there was an injustice.
c) every time I see someone with an exceptionally well-working brain waste their time because of ego or sheer stubbornness on shite like this instead of using it to do more interesting work, it makes me very sad.
Schmidhuber is a textbook example of this, and the other perfect example of this is Chomsky, a very smart man, who basically - because of his oversized ego and profound stubbornness - ended up wasting his entire life energy working on a linguistic dead-end AND a political philosophy dead-end.
I have a real hard time understanding how the brain of that kind of folks operates, being so bright on certain axes and totally and utterly dumb on others, especially the total lack of self-awareness.