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Matthew Cobb

@matthewcobb

Professor Emeritus (Manchester), writes on history of science & French Resistance. Finishing a biography of Francis Crick, out in October 2025.

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Great knows great. Yes, this is *the* David R. Liu. He had developed a neural network model of visual attention, which (unknown to him) was similar to something Hinton was working on. He was only 16 at the time. Did they meet? I don’t know yet.

Great knows great. Yes, this is *the* <a href="/davidrliu/">David R. Liu</a>. He had developed a neural network model of visual attention, which (unknown to him) was similar to something Hinton was working on. He was only 16 at the time. Did they meet? I don’t know yet.