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by robotresearcher 570 days ago
The post headline is distracting people and making a poor discussion. The paper describes a learning mechanism that had advantages over backprop, and may be closer to what we see in brains.

The contribution of the paper, and its actual title is about the proposed mechanism.

All the comments amounting to ‘no shit, sherlock’, are about the mangled headline, not the paper.