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474 points rbanffy | 2 comments | 04 Sep 25 22:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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adamnemecek[dead post] ◴[04 Sep 25 22:40 UTC] No.45133044[source]▶
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1. mreid ◴[04 Sep 25 23:40 UTC] No.45133485[source]▶
On your site you make the claim that: "Our thesis is that there is 100 years of physics and math research that has gone unnoticed by the CS/ML communities and we intend to rectify that."

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Especially considering that a decent fraction of the CS/ML researchers that I know have solid physics and math backgrounds. Just of the top of my head, Marcus Hutter, David MacKay, Bernhard Scholkopf, Alex Smola, Max Welling, Christopher Bishop, etc. are/were prominent researchers with strong math and physics backgrounds. More recently Jared Kaplan and Dario Amodei at Anthropic also have physics backgrounds, as well as plenty of people at DeepMind.

To claim that you have noticed something in "100 years of physics and math research" that all of those people (and more) have missed and you didn't is pure hubris.

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2. adamnemecek ◴[04 Sep 25 23:42 UTC] No.45133498[source]▶
> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Cliche phrase is cliche. And yeah, no shit, we are working on it.

Re: your other points: cool, yeah there are people in ML that studied physics. Do you feel like much of physics has made it to ML? Do we have scalable energy-based models? If not, why not?