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Comment by ekjhgkejhgk 12 hours ago

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I spent some time in the academia.

The person with whom an idea ends up associated often isn't the first person to have the idea. Most often is the person who explains why the idea is important, or find a killer application for the idea, or otherwise popularizes the idea.

That said, you can open what Schmidhuber would say is the paper which invented residual NNs. Try and see if you notice anything about the paper that perhaps would hinder the adoption of its ideas [1].

[1] https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/SeppHochreiter1991ThesisAdv...

MurizS 11 hours ago

I think what you're referring to is also known as Stigler's law of eponymy [1], which is interestingly self-referential and ironic in its own naming. There's also the related "Matthew effect" [2] in the sciences.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler's_law_of_eponymy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect

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  • thaumasiotes 2 hours ago

    The most annoying instance, to me, of Stigler's Law is De Morgan's Laws, which say the following:

    1. If two things are not both true, then one or both of them must be false. (And the reverse.)

    2. If neither of two things is true, then both of them are false. (And the reverse.)

    You might notice that both statements are blindingly obvious, but we've named them after Augustus de Morgan anyway.

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seanmcdirmid 12 hours ago

Surely they wrote some papers in English even if they wrote their dissertation in German? Most people don’t go straight to dissertations anyway, it’s more of a place to go after you read a much shorter paper.

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dchftcs 10 hours ago

Einstein published his relativity papers originally in German.

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  • CamperBob2 9 hours ago

    German was the lingua franca of physics at the time, so to speak.

    Starting in the 1930s, though, that tradition began to change... for reasons that I'm sure won't ever apply to American English. Nosirree, Bob, we're special. Great, even.

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