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Genius Makers by Cade Metz — WisdomDeck honest review
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Genius Makers

by Cade Metz

A New York Times reporter's history of deep learning's rise: Hinton, LeCun, Bengio, the Google-Facebook-Microsoft talent wars, DeepMind and OpenAI. Well-reported and human.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Persistence through decades of dismissal.
  2. Talent wars shape technology.
  3. Ideas wait for compute.

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The people behind deep learning.

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