The PDP papers are in a bunch of volumes, in addition to the handbook. Chapter 3 of the handbook, I recall, has a little bit from Hinton's original BM work which is of interest to the cognitive scientist, as well as a pretty obstruse but very good description of the entire process. Very historical, very strange by modern ANN standards.

> Very historical, very strange by modern ANN standards.

That's what I gathered from a brief look at things, which is why I find it very interesting - both from a historical context, as well as the idea that maybe there are some nuggets of (possibly overlooked?) wisdom hidden within, that might be useful in today's world.

Then again, I am but an interested (and very amateur) hobbyist in this whole ML space, and not likely to come up with any breakthroughs - but you never know I suppose!

Well, if there's any overlooked nuggets of wisdom, Hinton would probably still know, and Sejnowski, and Smolensky, and McClelland, and all those other folks still doing DL stuff, as they have been doing continuously since Reagan was president.