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John Hopfield, an Uncommon card
John Joseph Hopfield is an American physicist and emeritus professor of Princeton University, most widely known for his study of associative neural networks in 1982.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 73
- Power
- 145
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 65,000
Power 145 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
John Hopfield quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the John Hopfield card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He is known for the development of the Hopfield ______.
Answer
network. He is known for the development of the Hopfield network. From the John Hopfield article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
John Joseph Hopfield is an American physicist and emeritus professor of Princeton University, most widely known for his study of associative neural networks in ____.
Answer
1980s. John Joseph Hopfield is an American physicist and emeritus professor of Princeton University, most widely known for his study of associative neural networks in 1982. From the John Hopfield article on Wikipedia.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is known for the development of the Hopfield network.
- Before its invention, research in artificial intelligence was in a decay period or AI winter, Hopfield's work revitalized large-scale interest in this field.
- In 2024 Hopfield, along with Geoffrey Hinton, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for "foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks." He has been awarded various major physics awards for his work in multidisciplinary fields including condensed matter physics, statistical physics and biophysics.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The John Hopfield article was read about 65,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 73: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, John Hopfield (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jay Dixit, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
