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#038 - Professor Kenneth Stanley - Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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The Importance of Diversity in Deep Learning

In education, teachers should be allowed more autonomy to follow their battle tested instincts about which methods foster deep learning and understanding of the materials. Deception is a concept in search, but it's also just a general concept in life,. In other words, you're following a path where some performance metric is going up, but you're actually going in the wrong direction. For example, vacuum tubes led to computers. Microwave ovens came from radar technology. The internal combustion engine led to aeroplanes. It was a lucky accident when Percy Spencer first noticed the magnetron melted a chocolate bar in his pocket in 1946.

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