physics

“Large parts of physics and CS have been coming together in the last decades you know, partly statistical physics made this very, very deep connection between like spin glasses and condensed matter physics and combinatorial optimization problems.”

“Well, unfortunately, I think you have to be really mainstream. Sometimes I think too much. Sometimes I think too much. By mainstream now, I mean people are often trained within a framework which is fairly tight and rigid.”

“When you've tried everything and it doesn't work, there may still be something left that you haven't tried yet because you thought it was too outlandish. Well, you got to try it.”

“The fact that somebody else, I really believe, is now gonna go solve all the physics with this stuff, like, I'm so excited to be alive for that.”

“We found that there's actually something very, very, very precise and surprising underlying AI training. This really blew us away that there are these nice trends that are as precise as anything that you see in physics or astronomy.”