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Well, most of science is also just curve fitting.

• scottlocklin 7y ago
  Pretty sure Maxwells Equations and the laws of thermodynamics didn't come from curve fitting! Experimentalists may have verified these ideas using some kind of curve fitting, but thinking in abstractions, aka, "a ball rolled out in the street, maybe a child will follow," is one of the things curve fitting can't do.
  • sgt101 7y ago
    As Uber found out.
  • gus_massa 7y ago
    Most of the terms in Maxwell Equations were added one at a time to fit some restrictive set of experiments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations#Conceptual_descriptions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_equations#Conceptu... The last term was a leap of faith. The Plank Equation for the black body https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_law was the most successful curve fitting in history. They need like 30 years to discover quantum mechanics and understand the details.