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We taught a laptop to find the laws of physics from a video (and spot things it can't see)

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In school, physics always came with the formula first: here is T = 2π√(L/g), now plug in the numbers. A few weeks into B.Tech, my teammate Vinayakan V and I wondered: what if you did it the other way round? What if you just filmed something moving and let the computer work out the formula? That que…

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  1. 2026-10-22 19:50 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    We taught a laptop to find the laws of physics from a video (and spot things it can't see)

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