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The Hinton Intellectual Dynasty · Yiqin Fu

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This post summarizes the long lineage of intellectuals in Geoffrey Hinton’s family. Hinton (1947-)’s many associations include backpropagation, AlexNet, Turing Award, Google Brain, Sutskever, LeCun, etc. Notable people within four generations: His great-great-grandfather, or father’s father’s mother’s father, was George Boole (1815-1864), the mathematician and logician after whom Boolean logic is named. (LLM critics find it ironic that the current approach is a departure from the Boolean, symbol manipulation-based approach to AI.) Not exactly an intellectual, but: George Boole’s wife Mary Everest Boole (1832-1916), also a mathematician, was the niece of George Everest (1790-1866), the British surveyor after whom Mount Everest was named (in English), making him Geoffrey (Everest) Hinton’s 3rd great-granduncle and the relative for whom he’s named. His great-grandfather, or father’s father’s father, was Charles Howard Hinton (1853-1907), a mathematician who studied high-dimensional geomet

This post summarizes the long lineage of intellectuals in Geoffrey Hinton ’s family. Hinton (1947-)’s many associations include backpropagation, AlexNet, Turing Award, Google Brain, Sutskever, LeCun, etc. Notable people within four generations: His great-great-grandfather, or father's father's mother's father, was George Boole (1815-1864), the mathematician and logician after whom Boolean logic is named. (LLM critics find it ironic that the current approach is a departure from the Boolean, symbol manipulation-based approach to AI.) Not exactly an intellectual, but: George Boole’s wife Mary Eve

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