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Corey S Powell

3 weeks ago • •

Corey S Powell
3 weeks ago • •

The Nobel Prize in Physics goes to John Hopfield & Geoffrey Hinton for work in machine learning and neural networks.

Here's why that research qualifies as physics (it's also a fascinating read):

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/popular-information/ #science #physics #nobel #tech

Hopfield likened searching the network for a saved state to rolling a ball through a landscape of peaks and valleys, with friction that slows its movement. If the ball is dropped in a particular location, it will roll into the nearest valley and stop there. If the network is given a pattern that is close to one of the saved patterns it will, in the same way, keep moving forward until it ends up at the bottom of a valley in the energy landscape, thus finding the closest pattern in its memory.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”

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