Many days are a blur of activity, but the Thursday before last (October 10, 2024) my pinball-like bouncing from one task to another, often with little connecting them other than being part of my job, seemed slightly more ridiculous (or interesting) than usual, so I wrote things down. Events Start the morning (breakfast, coffee) revising … Continue reading What I did on Thursday
I’m always interested to hear who won the latest Physics Nobel Prize, and today’s announcement was particularly exciting: John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” Is it surprising? Is it controversial? Apparently yes. I predicted Hopfield in response to a friend’s poll a few … Continue reading The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics — Yes, Physics!
The Eighteenth Elephant 