> on the algorithmic differentiable ring (and operator)

That sounds like an interesting read. Do you have the chapter or the reference to the paper that you can share ?

Regarding th crop of deep neural network research their self-serving and willful blindness has a reputation that's well deserved.

A grad student from Hinton's lab mentioned one researcher who would misspell a citation on purpose so that the citation count of the cited paper does not go up.