Credit Assignment in Deep Learning - Tim Dettmers

This morning I got an email about my blog post discussing the history of deep learning which rattled me back into a time of my academic career which I rather not think about. It was a low point which nearly ended my Master studies at the University of Lugano, and it made me feel so bad about blogging that I took two long years to recover. When I started my masters, I worked on blog posts for NVIDIA which featured introductions into deep learning. I hence discussed what I thought to be the historical milestones with the largest impact but in doing so, I inadvertently assigned credit to researchers that I thought had a good impact on the field. I worked on this blog post and circulated it in my deep learning class's forums to the dismay of my then advisor who holds the opposite view of mine.