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		canjobear on Oct 8, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield an... I understand the frustration, but a lot of Geoff Hinton's foundational work was based on physics principles. For example https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/1993/file/9e3cfc48eccf8...

DiogenesKynikos on Oct 8, 2024 [–]

Information theory, which is foundational to computing, has some mathematical similarities to statistical mechanics. That doesn't make it physics.

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