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#246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Difference Between String Theory and Machine Learning?
String theory could start to represent something more than just the theory that involves strings it could represent the effort to unify the laws of physics right yeah and at high dimensions with these super tiny objects. I mean we we can sort of put string theory side so for example neural networks in the space of machine learning there was a time when they were extremely popular they became much much less popular. If you mention neural networks you're getting no funding and uh you're not going to be respected at conferences, he says.
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