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		what37373 on Oct 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield an... Finance, biology, CS, anything that uses vaguely statistical models and principles is fair game now? I don’t hate physics, but if you stretch terms like that they tend to lose meaning.

uoaei on Oct 9, 2024 [–]

I am having trouble coming up with more examples of "methods which revolutionized the practice of statistics", can you think of any?

Is statistical mechanics not a physics discipline?

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