Thoughts and Theory
How To Turn Physics into an Optimization Problem
If you know the basics of Machine Learning you already know how to solve a large body of physics problems without realizing it.
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11 min readNov 5, 2019
This post is mostly about a tool called Lagrangian Mechanics which lets you solve physical problems like an optimization problem.
In Machine Learning you minimize the loss between the prediction and the label to find the best predictor