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Yann LeCun recalls a 1986 meeting with Marvin Minsky over a neural-net experiment
LeCun says Minsky was surprised that he had trained a neural network to multiply two binary numbers.
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Yann LeCun recalls meeting Marvin Minsky at a reception during his first US conference in June 1986. He says Minsky was surprised by his experiment training a neural network to multiply two binary numbers. In a reply, another researcher recalled attending ICNN ten years later and encountering early work on SVMs, recurrent neural networks and Bayes nets.
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