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by supernikio2 563 days ago
Legendary Sethbling video from 2015 where he implemented NEAT for SMW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6UVOQ0F44&t=1
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That video inspired me to read the NEAT paper. I think that was the first scientific paper I ever printed out and read
Thanks for that link!

There is another video posted 7 months ago from Seth where he interviews Ken Stanley, the creator of the NEAT algorithm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zg_5hg8Ydo

This is really interesting, I remember seeing the Mar/IO video and being psyched that someone took Kenneth O. Stanley's work and applied it to something fun, but I had no idea how impactful that video actually turned out to be. Having spent O(hundreds) of hours reading his papers and thinking about those ideas a decade+ ago, this interview serves a really interesting role for me personally, because it connects conversationally in a way papers don't.