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NotPhil · 4618 days ago · link · · parent · post: Automated science, deep data and the paradox of information
A comment from the page of the Radiolab episode the article mentioned:
The article makes a big point of saying that the Eureqa is able to calculate F=ma or put differently: There is some quantity called force that is proportional to the instantaneous change in the instantaneous change of position of the pendulum. The Eureqa machine is capable of using calculus as a given. What made this task so hard for Newton was he had to create the calculus of instantaneous change. The problem that Eureqa solved is much more like that which a first year physics student solves (only, it did it with a much more impressive dataset) in that, thanks to Sir Isaac Newton, we have all the rules of calculus and mathematics to assist us.