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by verdverm 692 days ago
Perhaps they are having their Eureqa moment

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1165893

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureqa
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baq 692 days ago
For those who're only distantly aware of the kind of problem this solves (like me), the wikipedia link further elaborates:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_regression

and turns out there's a Python package

https://github.com/MilesCranmer/PySR

I've needed something like this at least once (but IIRC no more than twice ;) ), so I'm glad to know what to look for next time, thanks for the rabbit hole!

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verdverm 692 days ago
The Science paper launched my PhD topic. I asked a professor what they did for research, they listed a bunch of boring things... saw that and then asked "Did you see that talk about evolving equations? Do you want to work on that?" I was like hell yes!

(Hod gave a talk at our uni about all his research topics)

I wrote a deterministic algorithm for SymReg that outperforms genetic programming.

https://github.com/verdverm/pypge

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