Tim Lou, PhD

How physics and machine learning joined forces to win the Physics Nobel ‘24 Tim Lou, PhD · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 11 min read · 2 hours ago — Author’s own work depicting Nobel Prizes in a Hopfield Network. Background credit: Maxim Tajer, Nobel coin image credit: hyperionforge The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was just announced on 2024–10–04, and this year’s award went to Prof. John Hopfield and Prof. Geoffrey Hinton.

How physics principles give us deeper insights into our data Tim Lou, PhD · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 7 min read · 12 hours ago — Behind every data is a physical event in space and time (Photo by Alina Grubnyak on Unsplash) As a physicist turned data scientist, my colleagues and coworkers often ask me how my physics background is relevant. Sure, from the mundane work, there isn’t much in common