The 5th Zif summer school on Randomness in Physics and Mathematics has an approaching deadline, May 18 2025! With Benoit Collins, Laszlo Erdös, Laura Foini, Silvio Franz, Tamara Grava, Gaultier Lambert, Andrea Montanari, Ofer Zeitouni.

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Nice talk by Pierfrancesco Urbani about our recent work on generalization, overfitting, memorization in two layer networks www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRdH...

One figure summary: learning and overfitting/memorization take place on different timescales in large models.

In response to the significant interest and high volume of submissions, the StatPhys29 Steering Committee has decided to extend the abstract submission deadline to January 20th, 2025 23:59 CET. Submit Your Abstract: statphys29.org/abstract/

For the first time in 29 editions, the International Conference on Statistical Physics #StatPhys29 has a new Topic 9 devoted to"Statistical physics of machine learning and information", check it out: statphys29.org. Submit an abstract, the deadline is approaching!

Biggest event in our community this year in Florence!

A reproduction from the book "An introduction to the meaning and structure of physics" by L.N. Cooper where he describes how Kepler moved to use ellipses to describe Tycho Brahe's data after about 70 failed attempts with epycicles.

IWTYO when I learned that (according to Leon N. Cooper) Kepler tried ellypses to match Brahe's observation after *some 70 failed attempts*. We are lucky he did not have a grant or conference deadline to rush for.