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		mportela on Oct 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield an... Having studied control engineering, it feels like ML is control theory + optimization all the way down :) I love how folks from different backgrounds can interpret it in so many ways.

tightbookkeeper on Oct 9, 2024 | [–]

ML is remembering that computers can do math.

adw on Oct 9, 2024 | [–]

It’s also signal processing.

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