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The Nobel Prize in physics goes to Geoffrey Hinton for his work in computer science. What? (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (9 children)

That's what I'm wondering. It's not wild to give him a prize in physics if his techniques led to advancement in physics.

"CS is applied math, not applied physics" like physics isn't just applied math to model real world data is kind of weird, especially if his particular math actually got used in physics. That's pretty much what calculus was.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 18 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I don't think that Donald Knuth deserves a physics prize for inventing TeX, even though TeX was a massive contribution to how we communicate physics.

[–] mpk@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Knuth should have a special Nobel Prize for Being Donald Motherfuckin' Knuth.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He did, it's the Turing Award.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

which Hinton had already fucking won

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