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String theory is the idea that the fundamental particles we observe are not point-like dots, but rather tiny strings. String theory is one of the most famous ideas in modern physics, but it is also ...

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String theory and machine learning - two hot topics in physics, but how do you combine them? I'm talking to Thomas, a PhD student at the University of Oxford - my alma mater - about his research, and ...