Notices by Robotistry (robotistry@sciencemastodon.com)

I don't understand.

Hopfield and Hinton aren't physicists, and their work wasn't a breakthrough in physics.

Hopfield is in molecular biology and Hinton is in computer science, and their breakthrough was in computing / engineering.

How are they getting a *physics* #Nobel?

Physicists doing actual physics shouldn't be overlooked because the committee wanted to give an AI prize and Nobel prizes don't come in "engineering".

@ShadSterling @carlysagan ML and AI are all algorithms and patterns and ways of playing with data. If they absolutely, positively had to have an AI award for these two this year (because, whatever their excuse is, "relevance" maybe?), shouldn't this have been a mathematics award?

(Edit: Just remembered that there is no mathematics Nobel, just like there is no engineering Nobel. Perhaps the Nobel committee should stop trying to award prizes in banned fields?)

@grimalkina @inthehands @serge As not-a-teacher, I really don't think the problem is "not enough ed tech".

I think the problem is "we don't have a sustainable funding model capable of supporting the amount and type of one-on-one and small group student-teacher interaction that would be effective at helping each student achieve their goals".

@inthehands @mekkaokereke @lisamelton
There's a major difference between starting at breaking ground and starting at ideation.

That 1 year construction time probably involved _at least_ 5 years of planning and approvals.

This bridge has to start from scratch, in a constantly changing regulatory and stakeholder context, not from "we can rebuild it from the old blueprints".

@neilhimself I became an engineer because I wanted to be a wizard. The wizards always seemed to have much more interesting and fun lives than the princesses.