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I'm a Barbie Girl in a Post-Nuclear World (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to a computer scientist this year, so like... I could see this. Anything goes!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can't be dropping facts like that without elaborating

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Computer scientists won the physics Nobel for some machine learning algorithm. Supposedly, they used physics to create the structure of neural networks for ML.

A couple computer scientists behind alphafold also won part of the chemistry Nobel.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/summary/

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2024/summary/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

For research done in the 80s if I read correctly? Solely because AI is going nuts for commercial reasons now?

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