I'm surprised about all of the backlash on here against the article. Look at the ImageNet competition - when it first started out the algorithms being used were very different hand-designed algorithms, then all of a sudden backprop dominated.

If you're interested in this area, my company is designing hardware accelerators for these algorithms. Our versions of the algorithms have a few extra twists to them to account for the analog nature of the hardware. I'm probably a bit biased, but I think this is a really interesting place to be working right now

Below is what posted on this month's Who is Hiring:

Isocline - Austin, TX - Software Engineer for High Performance Computing and Modeling

We are looking for two people - one interested in neural networks and one interested in GPS.

We are developing microchips that yield a 10-1000x improvement in performance & energy-efficiency compared to digital ASICs, GPUs, and FPGAs. We are a bootstrapped company and are fully funded through mid 2016. Patents pending.

$70K – $120K Salary

0.5% – 1.2% Equity

Full Job Description: https://angel.co/isocline/jobs/38767-software-engineer

Company website: http://isoclineengineering.com/

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