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Connectionism died in the 60s from technical limits to scaling, then resurrected in the 80s after backprop allowed scaling. The Minsky–Papert anti-scaling hypothesis explained, psychoanalyzed, and buried.
I wrote it as if it’s a companion post to Gwern’s The Scaling Hypothesis.
The Perceptron Controversy
Link post
Connectionism died in the 60s from technical limits to scaling, then resurrected in the 80s after backprop allowed scaling. The Minsky–Papert anti-scaling hypothesis explained, psychoanalyzed, and buried.
I wrote it as if it’s a companion post to Gwern’s The Scaling Hypothesis.