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Is back propagation really an idea applicable to the Nobel prize in physics? I mean certainly a Turing award is warranted. But back propagation or neural networ
by stanfordkid 2y ago
Is back propagation really an idea applicable to the Nobel prize in physics? I mean certainly a Turing award is warranted. But back propagation or neural networks don’t really tell us anything about how the universe works. It’s an efficient optimization algorithm for a really powerful class of models.
- etiam 2y agoThe 2024 Physics Prize is not being awarded for backpropagation but “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”. They seem to be focusing on energy function, statistical mechanics connection, etc. of Hopfield Nets and Boltzmann machines. An auxiliary motivation seems to be the use of ANN:s becoming a significant tool for very-big-data physics. Nobel Foundation descriptions (from discussion at the announcement https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41775463 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41775463 ): https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/09/advanced-physicsprize2024.pdf https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2024/09/advanced-physicsp... https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/summary/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/summary/
- peterfirefly 2y ago> ANN:s You are from Sweden or Finland, right?