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i wouldn't want to sound like I'm running down Hinton's work on neural networks, it's the foundational tool of much of what's called "AI", certainly of ML
but uh, it's comp sci which is applied mathematics
how does this rate a physics Nobel??
They're reeeaallly leaning into the fact that some of the math involved is also used in statistical physics. And, OK, we could have an academic debate about how the boundaries of fields are drawn and the extent to which the divisions between them are cultural conventions. But the more important thing is that the Nobel Prize is a bad institution.
a friend says:
does that match your experience? if so i'll quote that
That sounds about right, yeah.
lol holy shit actual tweet
Image description: tweet from the official Nobel Prize account. Text reads,
Blake reaction description: sighing and muttering, "yep, assholes will asshole"
Wow. Congratulations to Rosalind Lee for her colleague and husband's nobel. I can only dream of one day having my spouse be recognized with such prestigious accolade for something we have done.
yeah, takes from physicists i know range from "wtf" to "it's plaaausible with a streeetch"
looking through the committee, I see Ulf Danielsson is notable on AI mostly for being skeptical (he writes pop sci books so people ask him about all manner of shit)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62r02z75jyo
😩
Getting a head start on that Nobel disease.
This work getting the physics nobel for “using physics” is reeeeeeal fuckin tangential
Also: TL note: 11,000,000 Swedish Krona equals 11,386,313.85 Norwegian Krone