Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton and physicist John Hopfield have won a Nobel Prize for their pioneering work on the neural network architecture that underlies machine learning. Specifically, the…
  • @khalid_saladEnglish
    12•2 hours ago

    So Geoffrey Hinton is a total dork.

    Hopefully, [this Nobel Prize] will make me more credible when I say these things really do understand what they’re saying. [There] is a whole school of linguistics that comes from Chomsky that thinks it’s nonsense to say these things understand language. That school is wrong. Neural nets are much better at processing language than anything produced by the Chomsky school of linguistics.

    • @V0ldekEnglish
      7•2 hours ago

      Neural nets are much better at processing language than anything produced by the Chomsky school of linguistics.

      Hey mate, did you get your PhD or a fucking Nobel in linguistics by any chance? No? Just talking about shit you apparently have no idea about?

      I didn’t even know you could be a crank about linguistics, that’s pretty amazing. What other otherwise really boring fields are you going to tackle, geodesy?

        • @acausal_masochistEnglish
          6•1 hour ago

          You give me a word, any word, and I show you how the root of that word is Greek.

        • @khalid_saladEnglish
          6•1 hour ago

          Everybody knows that all languages derive from ULTRAFRENCH.

        • @V0ldekEnglish
          1•9 minutes ago

          A popular meme on social media makes a series of allegations about the musical tune pitch A=432Hz and A=440Hz, including that the latter was a standard imposed by the Nazis to manipulate their enemies.

          spittake

          Multiple experts told Reuters these allegations are unfounded.

          NO WAY

          Thanks Reuters.

    • David GerardOPMAEnglish
      8•2 hours ago

      efficient move, getting the Nobel disease in before the Nobel itself