I miss the YOLO (CNN computer vision model) days where one dude can publish a paper, completely disregard academic conventions, and yet push the field forward by leap and bounds.
Yea those days were cool. Shame he quit doing research once he realized the biggest application for his work was killing people with robots I guess. It was a nice period of time. Before everyone in industry realized the cool stuff they were building was likely only going to be used to surveil the public, target people, remove skilled labor, and probably develop new weapons (whether people call them that now or not isn't relevant). Good old days.