[Discussion] Juergen Schmidhuber: Critique of Turing Award for Drs. Bengio & Hinton & LeCun

I saw this [tweet](https://twitter.com/SchmidhuberAI/status/1276058162974666753) from Schmidhuber today:

*ACM lauds the awardees for work that did not cite the origins of the used methods. I correct ACM's distortions of deep learning history and mention 8 of our direct priority disputes with Bengio & Hinton.*

His new article: http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html

**Abstract.** ACM's 2018 A.M. Turing Award was about *deep learning* in artificial neural networks. ACM lauds the awardees for work based on algorithms and conceptual foundations first published by other researchers whom the awardees failed to cite (see [Executive Summary](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#exec) and Sec. [I](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#I), [V](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#V), [II](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#II), [XII](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#XII), [XIX](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#XIX), [XXI](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#XXI), [XIII](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#XIII), [XIV](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#XIV), [XX](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#XX), [XVII](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#XVII)). ACM explicitly mentions "astonishing" deep learning breakthroughs in 4 fields: [(A) speech recognition](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#A), [(B) natural language processing](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#B), [(C) robotics](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#C), [(D) computer vision](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#D), as well as "powerful" new deep learning tools in 3 fields: [(VII) medicine, astronomy, materials science](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#VII). Most of these breakthroughs and tools, however, were directly based on the results of my own labs in the past 3 decades (e.g., Sec. [A](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#A), [B](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#B), [C](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#C), [D](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#D), [VII](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#VII), [XVII](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#XVII), [VI](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#VI), [XVI](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#XVI)). I correct ACM's distortions of deep learning history (e.g., Sec. [II](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#II), [V](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#V), [XX](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#XX), [XVIII](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/critique-turing-award-bengio-hinton-lecun.html#XVIII)) and also mention 8 of our direct priority disputes with Bengio & Hinton (Sec.

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[JupyterLab] Bootstrapping work before the spawner starts - change default working directory of terminal

Hello everyone,

We are trying to change the default working directory of users when they start their terminals on JupyterLab. Host machine is a Linux. It looks like this is the option:

#c.Spawner.pre_spawn_hook = None

from subprocess import check_call
def my_hook(spawner):
username = spawner.user.name
check_call(['./examples/bootstrap-script/bootstrap.sh', username])

c.Spawner.pre_spawn_hook = my_hook


Is there any way to append the following line to user's */home/user/.bash_profile* file:

cd /Users/path/toyourstartfolder/

I assume this option can do the trick. Is there any other way to accomplish that?
Thanks.

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