Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (1990) [pdf]
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Re: Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (1990) [pdf]
#2Quite incredible that he was interested in NNs back in 1990. He closed this thread very well.
Re: Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (1990) [pdf]
#3As always, Jeff Dean doesn't fail to inspire respect.
Tackling a complex problem (still relevant today) at an early age, getting great results and describing the solution clearly/concisely.
My master thesis was ~60 pages long, and was probably about 1/1000 as useful as this one.
Re: Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (1990) [pdf]
#4Quite incredible that he was interested in NNs back in 1990. He closed this thread very well.
Weren't neural nets popular back then?
Re: Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (1990) [pdf]
#5Re: Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (1990) [pdf]
#6Wonder who was his advisor back then, because I don't think it's mentioned in the thesis. Or he did this on his own, which is not surprising by the way.
Re: Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (1990) [pdf]
#7Wonder who was his advisor back then, because I don't think it's mentioned in the thesis. Or he did this on his own, which is not surprising by the way.
Re: Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (1990) [pdf]
#8An underappreciated aspect of this is finding an academic department that would allow you to submit something this concise as a senior thesis.
My experience, mostly in grad school, was that anyone editing my work wanted more verbiage. If you only needed a short, one-sentence paragraph to say something, it just wasn’t accepted. There had to be more.
Jeff Dean is an uncommonly good communicator. But he also benefited from being allowed, perhaps even encouraged, to prioritize effective and concise communication.
Most people aren’t so lucky, and end up learning that this type of concision will not go over well. People presume you’re writing like a know-it-all, or that you didn’t do due diligence on prior work.
Re: Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (1990) [pdf]
#9Quite incredible that he was interested in NNs back in 1990. He closed this thread very well.
They were very in vogue at the time. This was just after backprop was coming into its own, and before ANNs totally were surpassed by SVMs, boosting and ensembles, etc.
Re: Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (1990) [pdf]
#10It's really impressive that Jeff accomplished so much despite going to UMN for undergrad.