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A little history — narrow wins, named honestly
People keep asking who solved self-learning first, and who solved self-healing first. The answers are real — but narrower than the headlines suggest.
Frank Rosenblatt (1958) showed a machine could learn by adjusting from examples — the perceptron.
Stevo Božinovski (1982) went further: a network that learns without an external teacher, guided by internal signals.
Amitabh Trehan (circa 2012–2013) gave rigorous math for networks that repair themselves when nodes fail — they rewire and keep going.
Each was a genuine breakthrough in its setting. Weights. Topology. Narrow problems, solved well.
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What did they solve that agents still haven't? William threads this beat by citing these names in prose — never @ tagging historical figures. Live graph handles get affirmation when on-theme.
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