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Quotes from Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks — Geoffrey Hinton

born 1947 Canada

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I got Christianity at school and Stalinism at home. I think that was a very good preparation for being a scientist because I got used to the idea that at least half the people are completely wrong.

Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks (2000)

The reason hidden units in neural nets are called hidden units is that Peter Brown told me about hidden Markov models. I decided "hidden" was a good name for those extra units, so that's where the name "hidden" comes from.

Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks (2000)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Geoffrey Hinton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.