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South Korean Author Han Kang Wins Nobel Prize

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Re: South Korean Author Han Kang Wins Nobel Prize

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Post by bnchrch »

Figure I'd pull an arbitrary quote from Han Kang for this. Translated obviously

> “There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks these streets, holding this knowledge inside her. Sleet that leaves cheeks and eyebrows heavy with moisture. Everything passes.” - Han Kang

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Post by Horffupolde »

bnchrch wrote: post #2

Figure I'd pull an arbitrary quote from Han Kang for this. Translated obviously > “There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks these streets, holding this knowledge inside her. Sleet that leaves cheeks and eyebrows heavy with moisture. Everything passes.” - Han Kang

Korean existentialism reinvented?

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Post by dhairya »

diggan wrote: post #5
bobosha wrote: post #4

am i the only relieved that for once a non-AI human has won the nobel?

I must have missed something big, when did a AI human win the Nobel prize?

It's in reference to the Physics prize going to Hinton and Hopfield for "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks." and the Chemistry prize to Google DeepMind's founder Demis Hassabis, alongside with John Jumper (Google Deepmind) and David Baker for Alpha fold. Both prizes were given to significant figures in the AI space or use of AI applications.

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Post by carabiner »

I think the Nobels, especially in the arts, have lost their relevance, similar to the Michelin restaurant awards and the Oscars for film. We now know they're from a select group (of Norwegians in this case) with certain tastes no more noteworthy or transcendent than any of ours. The world has too much culture and achievement today to be marked by one group of awards like this per year. We have "Oscar bait," but I think the phenomenon of "Nobel bait" has been around for a long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_bait

Re: South Korean Author Han Kang Wins Nobel Prize

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Post by hshshshshsh »

bnchrch wrote: post #2

Figure I'd pull an arbitrary quote from Han Kang for this. Translated obviously > “There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks these streets, holding this knowledge inside her. Sleet that leaves cheeks and eyebrows heavy with moisture. Everything passes.” - Han Kang

Everything passes but also remains unchanged.
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