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This is an appropriate application of this prize considering the adage that there are now three pillars to science, the third being simulation (after theory and experiment).

Also, many of the underlying theories in machine learning display deep analogy with physical laws we are already familiar with, e.g., thermodynamics.

Machine learning is much bigger than chatbots.



Hey!

>the adage that there are now three pillars to science, the third being simulation (after theory and experiment)

Any specific place I could learn more about this? (aside from Google obv.)

I do simulation for a living, so that is mega-interesting to me.


I heard it from a professor who was a researcher in magnetohydrodynamics, studying flows on and under the surface of the sun. I don't know where to read more unfortunately, I'm not sure where it'sbeen fleshed out as an ideology.


Finance, biology, CS, anything that uses vaguely statistical models and principles is fair game now?

I don’t hate physics, but if you stretch terms like that they tend to lose meaning.


I am having trouble coming up with more examples of "methods which revolutionized the practice of statistics", can you think of any?

Is statistical mechanics not a physics discipline?


What Nobel-worthy physical, chemical, or biological process has been solved/discovered in silico?




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