Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton and physicist John Hopfield have won a Nobel Prize for their pioneering work on the neural network architecture that underlies machine learning. Specifically, the…
  • blakestacey@awful.systemsEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Sneers from r/physics! First up, this comment by napqe:

    I’m sorry, but this is like awarding the nobel prize for literature to Xerox/HP/Brother for “improvements to printing”.

    And in the same thread, from GustapheOfficial:

    Last year’s prize was too relevant, they had to stagger the physics by a year.

    We also have this by M1st_:

    What’s next? Someone gets a Nobel prize for another algorithm that numerically solves differential equations??

    Finally, we’ve the title of this thread, by TheSkells:

    Yeah, “physics”