Ask HN: Is it possible to backtest mathematical/scientific breakthroughs?
By creating a synthetic dataset of everything we know with a cutoff of say 1900 and see if it actually can come up with the same (or more interestingly, different) theories.
By creating a synthetic dataset of everything we know with a cutoff of say 1900 and see if it actually can come up with the same (or more interestingly, different) theories.