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4 comments:
I've now uploaded all of the images again.
Looking at the pattern of missing images across my Blogger blogs, it seems that the oldest posts all survived intact, but later on all images had disappeared (though videos survived). I guess that images must have been stored in different places for posts made at different times, and that one (or more) of these repositories is now broken.
This doesn’t bode well for long-term archival storage!
Back in 1992 you were incredibly full of yourself, describing your then efforts as being out in the desert eating locusts and honey. You gave the distinct impression you thought of yourself as the Messiah of neural networks and all the other people in the area fools who had failed to recognize your genius.
I wonder now 21 years later if the literature now affords you the worship you predicted. Have the fruits of your labour fermented into a heady wine you can now enjoy at the pinnacle of academia?
Here is some historical context that is much easier for me to explain in hindsight than others could perceive at the time. The year 1992 that you mention was when I was developing “Folded Markov Chain” theory, which is the unifying framework for all of my adaptive stochastic encoder/decoder work. See the basic theory in “A Bayesian analysis of self-organising maps” in Neural Computation (1994) vol. 6 no. 5 pp.767–794 and the generalised theory in the chapter “A theory of self-organising neural networks” of the book “Mathematics of neural networks: models, algorithms and applications” (1997) pp. 240–244 (Kluwer, Boston). You can find my commentary on this and other material plus links to online versions of my papers by following the link Guided Tour of Publications, which covers the period up to 2007 when I encountered an unexpected “cliff edge” in my work environment. You ask (1) “Have the fruits of your labour fermented into a heady wine …” and continue with (2) “… you can now enjoy at the pinnacle of academia?”. My answers to these questions are (1) “yes”, because I have had the freedom to do research, and (2) “no”, because I always wanted the freedom to do research. After the “cliff edge” in 2007, for “contractual reasons” I had to leave behind the research that I had been doing earlier, and then – during a hiatus of around 5 years – restart my research from a completely different angle, which has since been developing into a very useful theoretical and practical framework for self-organising networks.
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