nobody: nobel prize committee: the method of least squares was invented to do astrophysics so linear regression is technically physics

even if we agree that hopfield networks and boltzman machines are super-important in ML / DL / NN (I don't), calling them "inventions that *enable* machine learning with neural networks" is really a huge stretch. ML/DL/NN owes a ton to Hinton, but this ain't it.

Will be disappointed if the Nobel Prize in literature doesn't go to ChatGPT for being the most prolific author.

Isaac Newton has verified his email on Google Scholar. And has recently picked up a professorship at MIT. Good for him.

Of course

Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing. The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos. 1/ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…