Hi I just see the Nobel in Physics announcement. It seems that I’m not the only person who is confused about this. I have an okay understanding of machine learning but I don’t know physics that much. No hate, or gatekeeping science field. Just genuinely curious. TIA.
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I don’t think this has been a particularly good choice for the nobel prize. The main connection here is that some methods from statistical mechanics, which is physics, can be applied to machine learning. Particularly, Hinton developed Boltzmann machines.
But their work in itself is not physics, it’s computer science.
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