• expatriado@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Physics’ Nobel prize awarded for a Computer Science achievement, actual physics is having a dry spell I guess

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      2 months ago

      Beyond recognizing the laureates’ inspirations from condensed-matter physics and statistical mechanics, the prize celebrates interdisciplinarity. At its core, this prize is about how elements of physics have driven the development of computational algorithms to mimic biological learning, impacting how we make discoveries today across STEM.

      They explain the flex at least

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      2 months ago

      i’m here to remind you that for last 20ish years half of the time chemistry nobel goes to biologists, and now they doubled down on ai wankery with giving it to alphafold