On science
- The physics Nobel went to neural networks
Hopfield and Hinton won the physics prize, and Hassabis and Jumper shared chemistry for AlphaFold. A mechanical engineer's reaction to physics and AI converging.
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DeepMind's AlphaFold 2 predicts protein structures about as accurately as experiments do. A fifty-year-old physics problem, solved mostly by learning from examples.
2 min reads likes comments - The black hole photo was a reconstruction problem
The Event Horizon Telescope didn't take a picture in the ordinary sense. It filled in a mostly empty measurement with priors, and was careful about which ones.
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