2012 tribute: when few believed in deep learning, Andrew Ng was the beacon
Kuprel · x · 2026-11-04
A researcher sharing a photo with Andrew Ng penned a tribute recalling how, back in 2012 when almost no one believed in deep learning, Ng was "the beacon of hope" — championing the field while his Stanford colleagues published theorems. The post also notes Ng authored Latent Dirichlet Allocation, Michael Jordan's most-cited paper ("the Michael Jordan of machine learning"), and thanks him for the CS229 course that shaped the author's PhD journey across MIT, Stanford, CalTech and Berkeley.
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