For me, Dan Shiffman's book and the accessibility of Python ML tools made coding a lot more accessible.
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The tutorial stuff with Shiffman was in 2018. I would have been about twenty at the point when I was doing CPPN (compositional pattern-producing networks) and GANs.
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