Returning to the past use of overhead projectors in teaching physics, the most creative example I experienced was due to the late Nobelist E.M. Purcell: he gave an entire lecture on an envelope, ...
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@Peter Shor there's probably something to be said about sufficient and/or necessary conditions, here. Let us see how the Breakthrough prizes turn out after a few decades. :-)
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@David Roberts says:
But with eg the Nobel or the Abel, it’s not the previous winners that pick the prize, but the independent and long-running academic bodies, which lends the wei...https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13917&cpage=1#comment-245872
New Witten interview here: https://youtu.be/PZ_qnBwSejE?si=K3HuWjpT2Bx33my8 Apparently, he wants to go back to the good old days of string theory in the 80s... which seems in line with this curre...
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Has it been so common for physicists to pivot to AI in the last few years? I don't know any except Max Tegmark and Michael Douglas
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I think in general, solving PDE using neural networks instead of traditional linear algebra solvers is interesting in a wide variety of areas in applied mathematics. The trained netwo...https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13924&cpage=1#comment-245866
Peter -- we last saw each other when I came around to Columbia to talk about AI and math research my group was doing. It turns out I was at a recent Aspen workshop on this topic, with some of the...
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"If you’re a theorist interested in getting funding, obviously the thing to do was to pivot quickly from quantum computing to machine learning and AI, and get to work on the people at Quanta to...
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Imagine how much worse this is going to get once we have widely available neural nets that can reliably be trusted to do maths. Theoretical physicists have created a research standard where maths...
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zzz, From what I remember, overhead projectors are significantly older than that, but I guess the technology died right around the same time (late 80s) as the idea in the graphic that one could g...
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