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That's what I'm wondering. It's not wild to give him a prize in physics if his techniques led to advancement in physics.
"CS is applied math, not applied physics" like physics isn't just applied math to model real world data is kind of weird, especially if his particular math actually got used in physics. That's pretty much what calculus was.
I don't think that Donald Knuth deserves a physics prize for inventing TeX, even though TeX was a massive contribution to how we communicate physics.
Knuth should have a special Nobel Prize for Being Donald Motherfuckin' Knuth.
He did, it's the Turing Award.
which Hinton had already fucking won
I'm not sure how that's the same thing.
Typesetting papers isn't the same as developing mathematical methods that directly enable new solutions.
Providing the medium through which, to a rough approximation, all physics is discussed is, proportionally, a vastly greater contribution than any technique that only applies to a fraction of problems.
But the more salient point is that the Nobel Prize is an institution that we should, as a culture, care less about. And all the more so now, since they are getting in on the hype about an industry that is fundamentally anti-scientific.
From the linked article:
This was a presentation about LIGO. How? Just fucking how does your INTRO to a project on GRAVITATIONAL WAVES get to be sexist and racist? Did he just casually throw in a slide saying "btw I just hate insert groups here"??
I found this description in the PhD thesis of Crystal Bennes:
This reminds me of the time a few years before that when Didier Sornette illustrated his conference-talk slides with mudflap women silhouettes.
Again, what is the connection to LIGO?? Did he want to do something so grossly inappropriate it would generate gravitational waves with its sheer denseness?