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How did Automobile lead to Deep Learning?

9 steps · 7 domains · 126 years

  1. Automobile1886 (Benz Patent-Motorwagen) · 1886 ADA self-propelled road vehicle carrying its own internal-combustion engine and fuel — personal, point-to-point transport that needs no rails, no animal, and no fixed schedule.
  2. 有赖于它的是—— 使之可能 ↑

    The car is built around a compact petrol engine that carries its own concentrated liquid fuel — the thing that finally freed a road vehicle from rails and coal tenders.

    Internal combustion engine1876 (Otto four-stroke) · 1876 ADAn engine that burns fuel inside the cylinder itself, so the expanding combustion gases push directly on the piston. Nikolaus Otto's four-stroke cycle — intake, compression, power, exhaust — made it practical.
  3. 有赖于它的是—— 使之可能 ↑

    Otto's own engine ran on coal gas; refined liquid fuels — petrol, then diesel — made the engine portable enough for vehicles.

    Petroleum refining1855 (Silliman's report); first commercial well 1859 · 1855 ADBoiling crude oil apart into fractions by temperature — light naphtha and gasoline, then kerosene, then heavy oils and tar — turning a black, useless seep into lamp fuel, lubricants, and eventually the fuel of the modern world.
  4. 有赖于它的是—— 使之可造 ↑

    Refining is distillation applied to crude oil — the same boil-and-condense separation, scaled from the alchemist's still to the fractionating tower.

    Distillation~800 AD (alembic systematized in the Islamic world) · 800 ADBoiling a mixture and catching the vapor, so that the parts that boil easiest come off first and condense back to a purer liquid. Separation by temperature — it makes nothing new, it only sorts.
  5. 有赖于它的是—— 使之可能 ↑

    Clear glass lets the distiller watch the boil and condensation and resists the acids and hot vapors that corrode metal and clay.

    Glass~1,500 BC (vessels) · 1,500 BCSand melted with a flux of soda or plant ash until it fuses into a transparent solid — shapeable while hot, rigid and chemically inert forever after.
  6. 使之可能 ↓
    Lenses~1286 AD (spectacles) · 1286 ADGlass ground into curved surfaces that bend light to a focus — correcting aging eyes, and, stacked in tubes, revealing worlds too far or too small to see at all.
  7. 使之可造 ↓
    Photolithography1957 AD · 1957 ADPrinting with light: project a circuit pattern onto a light-sensitive coating on a silicon wafer, so billions of microscopic transistors can be made in a single exposure.
  8. 使之可造 ↓
    Integrated Circuit1959 AD · 1959 ADAn entire circuit — transistors, resistors, wiring — manufactured as one piece on a single sliver of silicon.
  9. 使之可能 ↓
    The Internet1969–1983 AD · 1983 ADA network of networks with no center: any computer can reach any other by passing packets through whoever is in between.
  10. 使之可能 ↓

    Web-scale datasets (ImageNet was assembled from internet images) are what made depth pay off.

    Deep Learning2012 AD · 2012 ADMany-layered neural networks that learn features from raw data instead of being told what to look for — revived when GPUs made training them feasible.
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