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This is very neat, but for some reason I'm not super impressed. I don't mean to be glib, but genetic algorithms have been producing impressive results for a whi
by bh23ha 17y ago
This is very neat, but for some reason I'm not super impressed. I don't mean to be glib, but genetic algorithms have been producing impressive results for a while. And if you feed them a huge amount of raw experimental data, I have no doubt and I am not the least bit surprised they can discover and fit equations to it.
I suppose there is a possibility that for some more complicated things formulas don't converge and thus a brute force search would not be able to optimize a solution. However for most thing, I do expect solutions derive from other solutions and things converge.
Still, often the most brilliant things seem obvious in hindsight, kudos to the team.
- randallsquared 17y agoThe article seemed to say that their system derived the law of conservation of energy from pendulum data. That seems pretty impressive to me, but maybe that's because I don't know enough physics to see how it's an obvious conclusion?
- joeyo 17y agoThey derived laws that were already known. It won't be until their system derives unknown laws and relationships, then we'll have something.