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		RamblingCTO on Jan 23, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Most Influential Papers in Computer Science Histor... I'd argue both as well as McCulloch & Pitts. Maybe Boltzmann or Rummelhart (Backprop) as well. Honestly, I wouldn't know where to stop, there are so many cool papers.

rcpt on Jan 23, 2025 [–]

Yeah. But before AlexNet GPUs were only for graphics and esoteric papers in scientific computing. The realization that conv layers map well to cuda cores has led to GPU production being a national security issue.

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