Powerful ‘Machine Scientists’ Distill the Laws of Physics From Raw Data
This showed up in the right-hand column of my Google News. A rather disturbing way to consider the modeling of physical phenomenon. Of course, so are neural networks, IMHO.
An obvious (well, to me, anyway) application might be a better auto-matched tone curve…
I was thinking about that article too, I actually like the idea of getting a (probably approximate) formula at the end. At least you can fully understand what’s happening when using it. I have some image processing things where I’d be more than happy to let a machine spit out an equation… sometimes, there just isn’t enough time in one life to learn it all!
I sometimes throw some things @garagecoder and others’ way. I would say other people are my “scientists” and “engineers”. Ha ha.
i’ve used turingbot for this in the past. i think this is impressive tech/software (this one actually works i thought, but very expensive). not sure i’d go as far as calling it reverse engineering laws of physics, but it is an immensely useful tool.
They have a free version:
