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In my opinion, Yann LeCun is one of the top celebrities in ML/Neural Net research. His voice really has weight.

Definitely. At work today we were watching a video on Machine Learning by Andrew Ng and he made a number of references to LeCun's involvement the field, and listed him in the acknowledgements section of his talk. It has encouraged me to look into more of his areas of work.

I signed up for Andrew's ML course (https://class.coursera.org/ml/lecture/preview , start date is not announced yet). Really looking forward to it.

I took the very first course when it was a Stanford experiment and I have to say that was a lot of fun! It feels a bit downgraded in terms of difficulty but quality wise was very good.

I heard about him from his Google tech talk on learning visual models. Interesting guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3boKlkPBckA

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