> ML and physics ... are both concerned about the process of gathering and analyzing data to design models that can predict the behaviour of complex systems. T

> ML and physics ... are both concerned about the process of gathering and analyzing data to design models that can predict the behaviour of complex systems. That's an interesting thought. When Kepler was looking at planetary data and trying to make sense of it, he was doing pretty much what an ML algorithm does, searching his hypothesis space for the model that fits the data the best. Einstein feels like such a genius because his hypothesis space was enormous, he was able to search in very interesting and original axes. And ad-hoc hypotheses are discouraged because they overfit to the data, and thus are unlikely to generalize.