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Re:Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Machine Learning and N... by xqcgrek2 on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @07:48AM (#41776280)
Exoplanet science is not physics, it's chemistry or planetary science. By your logic prizes to teams who send probes to the outer solar system planets could also be given prizes.
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Re:Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Machine Learning and N... by bfmalky on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @08:18AM (#41776495)
Ok, so under what logic does ML become physics?
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Re:Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Machine Learning and N... by YeGoblynQueenne on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @08:02AM (#41776397)
What's "exoplanet science"? The above are applications of knowledge of physics to astrophysics, as far as I understand it. Certainly they sound more relevant to physics than neural networks.
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Re:Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Machine Learning and N... by cosmic_quanta on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @08:19AM (#41776511)
I would argue that the first measurements of exoplanets' existence is definitely physics. This was a leap in our understanding of the makeup of the universe.
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