After mentioning 1988's ALVINN in class, a professor drafts a lecture plan on the spot
alfcnz · x · 2026-09-24
alfcnz shared that after ALVINN (Pomerleau, 1988) came up in class, he designed a lecture plan for the next session on the spot: intro to ALVINN setup (5 min), multi-class perceptron (15), multi-layer nets (10), learning signal (10), gradient descent (15), backprop (10), looping back to the start (5). A neat example of teaching classic neural network fundamentals through a historical self-driving case.
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