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[by associative memory I'm reminded of our discussion* about falsification and the "forall" vs "exists" type of logical sentences from the previous argmin season. If only one could solve all scientific problems by convex optimization...]

* here: https://open.substack.com/pub/argmin/p/popperian-falsification?r=2k6f6v&utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=54704131

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My dear departed friend Andy Packard had a pretty cool research project trying to do exactly that. I think in his context (understanding methane combustion), it was a clever and powerful idea.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/kin.10172

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