[gsf_emergency_2]

It's as much an approx as any physical measurement is. As for "real world" implications, Hinton probably deserves the physics Nobel more than (the) Hofstadter who predicted this phenom (as a grad student)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_butterfly#:~:te...

[taneq]

> It's as much an approx as any physical measurement is.

This is exactly the point I was making, so I agree. :)

[madcaptenor]

Fun fact: Douglas Hofstadter's father, Robert, actually did win the physics Nobel.