This year #Physics #NobelPrize was given to Hopfield and Hinton for their work on neural networks and machine learning.
Currently a lot of Physicists scratching their heads and wondering how machine learning is Physics, but:
* Physicists have taken Nobel prizes in Medicine and Chemistry a lot over the years, so I don't think it is fair for us to complain.
* Hopfield networks and Bolzmann machines are probably the two most "Physics adjacent" architectures for a neural network.
Overall, unexpected but well deserved.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/press-release/
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