Schmidhuber hammering his paper list: the '1991-1992' meme explained
wavefnx · x · 2026-10-29
An AI-circle meme photoshops Jürgen Schmidhuber's face onto a hammer-wielding monk in front of a Google Scholar search showing all 199 of his papers, captioned "1991-1992." The joke plays on Schmidhuber's long-running habit of claiming that attention and other Transformer core ideas trace back to his early-1990s work — a famous bit that never gets old.
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