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The deep learning boom caught almost everyone by surprise

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251 points slyall | 3 comments | 06 Nov 24 04:05 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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teknover ◴[06 Nov 24 07:09 UTC] No.42057746[source]▶
“Nvidia invented the GPU in 1999” wrong on many fronts.

Arguably the November 1996 launch of 3dfx kickstarted GPU interest and OpenGL.

After reading that, it’s hard to take author seriously on the rest of the claims.

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ahofmann ◴[06 Nov 24 07:26 UTC] No.42057829[source]▶
Wow, that is harsh. The quoted claim is in the middle of a very long article. The background of the author seems to be more on the scientific side, than the technical side. So throw out everything, because the author got one (not very important) date wrong?
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1. RicoElectrico ◴[06 Nov 24 09:18 UTC] No.42058470[source]▶
Revisionist marketing should not be given a free pass.
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2. twelve40 ◴[06 Nov 24 10:39 UTC] No.42059634[source]▶
yet it's almost the norm these days. Sick of hearing Steve Jobs invented smartphones when I personally was using a device with web and streaming music years before that.
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3. kragen ◴[06 Nov 24 11:45 UTC] No.42060545[source]▶
You don't remember when Bill Gates and AOL invented the internet, Apple invented the GUI, and Tim Berners-Lee invented hypertext?