[RaftPeople]

> Unlike cold fusion there is real practical progress.

Yes agreed, there is progress, that's why I said "It seems there is some foundational progress but it's very slow."

Training deep networks, vectorization of semantically related words+phrases, reservoir computing for time series patterns, etc. etc.

All great foundational work, but we still can't reproduce how a rabbit dynamically adjusts it's olfactory network the minute it learns whether a new smell results in something positive/negative/neutral, which is probably the same trick used in a variety of places in our brain to give it such dynamic adaptability.

It's progress, but it's moving slowly.