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by tux3 618 days ago
This year is an exception because of the AI Gen AI Artificial Intelligence AI AI zeitgeist.

If we keep giving the physics Nobel to people building computer tools, soon it will have to be renowned physicist Linus Torvalds, whose computational platform underlies every big physics experiment.

I'm not sure physicists would be thrilled if we keep going in that direction.