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.

Mark Saroufim
Towards Data Science
11 min readNov 5, 2019

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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

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