WHO'S YANN?

Yann LeCun is a visionary researcher who pioneered many of the innovations in neural network research which gave rise to the modern era of artificial intelligence.

WHAT'S $YANN?

Yann LeCoin is a meme token on the Solana blockchain inspired by the early days of Yann LeCun's work, when all the ingredients necessary for artificial intelligence were missing from the world and he was inventing them from scratch with new math, custom programming languages, and lo-fi hardware.

Yann LeCoin is an homage to both Yann's contributions and to the era of retro computing in which he started his career.

REFERENCES

A sampling of Yann LeCun's early work:

• Backpropagation to train neural networks (how all of deep learning works!): A Theoretical Framework for Back-Propagation
• Convolutional Neural Networks (first computer vision models to actually work): Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition
• High level array language for implementing neural networks (ancestor of PyTorch): SN

VIDEOS

• Convolutional Network Demo from 1989

LUSH EXPERIMENTS

We're working on implementing one of Yann's older custom programming languages for machine learning called Lush through a JavaScript interpreter. It's still a work in progress but you can try out some examples below: