blakestacey

I don't think that Donald Knuth deserves a physics prize for inventing TeX, even though TeX was a massive contribution to how we communicate physics.

Well, just about every data analysis technique ever invented has been applied in physics somewhere. I wrote my undergraduate thesis on applying a genetic algorithm to electron-atom scattering in particle detectors, a topic which I recall someone had already tried neural networks on.

Also discussed in the Stubsack.

I'm just waiting for him to chime in about music theory.

Image description: tweet from the official Nobel Prize account. Text reads,

Congratulations to our 2024 medicine laureate Victor Ambros ✨

This morning he celebrated the news of his prize with his colleague and wife Rosalind Lee, who was also the first author on the 1993 'Cell' paper cited by the Nobel Committee.

#NobelPrize

Blake reaction description: sighing and muttering, "yep, assholes will asshole"

That sounds about right, yeah.

Getting a head start on that Nobel disease.

They're reeeaallly leaning into the fact that some of the math involved is also used in statistical physics. And, OK, we could have an academic debate about how the boundaries of fields are drawn and the extent to which the divisions between them are cultural conventions. But the more important thing is that the Nobel Prize is a bad institution.

I tried it with a bunch of stuff already and shared with friends.

I hope your friends find a better friend.

At some point, that just becomes unfair to the grass.

You guys aren’t gonna like to hear this, but being super wealthy and successful is always going to confer some degree of cool.

"Suck a dick, dumb shit," the administrator said.

Large Reasoning Models

May the coiners of this jargon step on Lego until the end of days