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by mr_toad 2854 days ago
> Galileo

Nobody is interested in having a machine discover the theory behind parabolic trajectories. That was solved science 400 years ago.

What is interesting, is having a machine that can estimate a parabolic trajectory, not deductively, but inductively, based only on visual observation, for a variety of different shaped and sized objects. The way a human does.

Galileo was a great scientist, and discovered many natural laws relating to motion, but that wouldn’t have made him a great dodgeball player.