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New tool in the box

A recent burst of activity in applying machine learning to tackle fundamental questions in physics suggests that associated techniques may soon become as common in physics as numerical simulations or calculus.

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Zdeborová, L. New tool in the box. Nature Phys 13, 420–421 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys4053

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