Hacker News with Generative AI: Nobel Prize

'We Are Not Programmed to Die,' Says Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan (wired.com)
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, the man of death. Although this does not sound like a good moniker, it is: Ramakrishnan is one of the world’s most eminent scientists in the fields of structural biology and cellular processes related to aging and death.

Science, Nobel Prize, Aging, Biology

10 points by beardyw 11 days ago | 4 comments

Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel-Winning Peruvian Novelist, Dies at 89 (nytimes.com)
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist who combined gritty realism with playful erotica and depictions of the struggle for individual liberty in Latin America, while also writing essays that made him one of the most influential political commentators in the Spanish-speaking world, died on Sunday in Lima. He was 89.

Literature, Peru, Nobel Prize, Obituaries

12 points by wslh 12 days ago | 1 comments

The Nobel Duel (asimov.press)
What would you give for a Nobel Prize?

Nobel Prize, Science, Competition, Ethics

78 points by mailyk 26 days ago | 7 comments

Daniel Kahneman died last year by assisted suicide (jpost.com)
Israeli-American psychologist and Nobel Prize winner in economics Daniel Kahneman, who died last year, used doctor-assisted suicide to end his life, a Wall Street Journal essay revealed on Friday.

Death, Assisted Suicide, Psychology, Nobel Prize

16 points by wslh 41 days ago | 1 comments

The science behind winning a Nobel Prize? Being a man from a wealthy family (theguardian.com)
A lot of talent is wasted in a world where more than half of laureates come from households in the richest 5%

Nobel Prize, Inequality, Science, Gender Bias, Wealth

7 points by xqcgrek2 139 days ago | 3 comments

The science behind winning a Nobel Prize? Being a man from a wealthy family (theguardian.com)
A lot of talent is wasted in a world where more than half of laureates come from households in the richest 5%

Science, Nobel Prize, Gender Bias, Wealth Inequality

8 points by n1b0m 139 days ago | 0 comments

Japanese scientists were pioneers of AI (theconversation.com)
The announcement of the artificial intelligence researchers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton as this year’s Nobel laureates in physics spurred celebration and consternation over the status of AI in science and society. In Japan, however, another feeling dominates: frustration.

Artificial Intelligence, Science, Japan, Nobel Prize

20 points by etiam 149 days ago | 2 comments

JM Coetzee on Zbigniew Herbert (telegraph.co.uk)
The Nobel Prize-winning novelist celebrates Zbigniew Herbert, whose defiant work proved that even the darkest times call for poetry

Literature, Poetry, Nobel Prize

45 points by Caiero 159 days ago | 13 comments

Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on His Nobel Prize (ft.com)
Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis on his Nobel Prize: ‘It feels like a watershed moment for AI’

Artificial Intelligence, Nobel Prize, Google DeepMind, AI

6 points by RafelMri 185 days ago | 1 comments

AlphaFold reveals how sperm and egg hook up in intimate detail (nature.com)
An artificial-intelligence tool honoured by this year’s Nobel prize has revealed intimate details of the molecular meet-cute between sperm and eggs.

Science, Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Nobel Prize

23 points by Brajeshwar 190 days ago | 10 comments

Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 (nobelprize.org)
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 to

Economics, Nobel Prize, Sweden

97 points by hdvr 194 days ago | 105 comments

Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 awarded to Nihon Hidankyo (nobelprize.org)
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the Peace Prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.

Nobel Prize, Peace, Nuclear Weapons, Japan, Activism

290 points by danielskogly 197 days ago | 357 comments

South Korean Author Han Kang Wins Nobel Prize (aljazeera.com)
South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”.

Literature, Nobel Prize, South Korea, Awards

70 points by ricardoplouis 198 days ago | 56 comments

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Scientists who solved ~ all proteins with AI (cnn.com)

Nobel Prize, Chemistry, Artificial Intelligence, Science

5 points by EGreg 198 days ago | 0 comments

Demis Hassabis Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry (techcrunch.com)

Nobel Prize, Chemistry, Artificial Intelligence

10 points by ppsreejith 198 days ago | 1 comments

Google DeepMind scientists win Nobel chemistry prize (theguardian.com)
Two scientists at Google DeepMind and an American biochemist have been awarded the 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry for breakthroughs in predicting and designing the structure of proteins.

Science, Artificial Intelligence, Nobel Prize, Chemistry, Biology

14 points by isaacfrond 199 days ago | 2 comments

Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction (nobelprize.org)

Chemistry, Nobel Prize, Science, Protein Design

547 points by mitchbob 199 days ago | 317 comments

AI's Penicillin and X-Ray Moment (theatlantic.com)
The Nobel Committee officially recognizes artificial intelligence’s godfathers in the pantheon of human achievement.

Artificial Intelligence, Science, Nobel Prize

5 points by daphnemichala 199 days ago | 0 comments

Nobel Prize goes to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton work on machine learning (bbc.co.uk)
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to two scientists, John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, for their work on machine learning.

Nobel Prize, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Science

21 points by mrtz 200 days ago | 2 comments

Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf] (nobelprize.org)
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks"

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Science, Nobel Prize, Awards

943 points by drpossum 200 days ago | 794 comments

John Hopfield and Geoff Hinton Win Physics Nobel Prize [pdf] (nobelprize.org)

Physics, Nobel Prize, Artificial Intelligence

153 points by chemd0ge 200 days ago | 2 comments

Nobel Prize goes to microRNA researchers (bbc.com)
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 has been awarded to US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on microRNA.

Nobel Prize, Science, Biology, Medicine

6 points by viewtransform 201 days ago | 0 comments

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 (nobelprize.org)
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 was awarded jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun "for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation."

Science, Medicine, Nobel Prize

154 points by 0xedb 201 days ago | 79 comments

The Nobel Prize in Economics Is Fake (chibus.com)
The Nobel Prize in Economics does not exist. UChicago should stop pretending otherwise—hinging our university’s reputation on an outright fraud is not a good look. And UChicago Booth students and staff should be more skeptical of our economics faculty, whose work relies heavily on arbitrary neoliberal assumptions and overly technical methods that cannot be explained in plain English.

Economics, Nobel Prize, Academia

28 points by 77pt77 206 days ago | 37 comments

Do Not Study Quantum Mechanics – Nobel Physics Laureate Tony Leggett's Warning (youtube.com)

Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Science, Nobel Prize

8 points by jdcampolargo 250 days ago | 1 comments

Educational Games on the Nobel Prize Website (nobelprize.org)

Education, Games, Nobel Prize

18 points by andrei-akopian 253 days ago | 0 comments

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Tsung-Dao Lee has died at age 97 (npr.org)

Physics, Nobel Prize, Obituary

13 points by dredmorbius 262 days ago | 2 comments

Feynman's Nobel Ambition (asc.ohio-state.edu)