Comment Re:PDP (Score 2, Informative) 266
Cosma Shalizi is also a Physicist. I don't think he is actually doing research in machine learning or AI but he likes to read a lot and he tends to have fairly extensive reading lists.
Machine Learning
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You may also want to get familiar with Geoffrey Hinton's current work in neural networks.
Machine Learning
AI
You may also want to get familiar with Geoffrey Hinton's current work in neural networks.