The Equation That Explains (Nearly) Everything!
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a good visual walkthrough of the Standard Model equation for people who want to understand its terms.
What it is
PBS Space Time explains the Standard Model Lagrangian, the single equation encapsulating the particle physics theory, and visualizes what its terms mean.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2022 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends irjustin · 2022-10 · on “Why is symmetry so important in particle physics?”
PBS Spacetime has a very good video[0] that helps visualize what's going on in the equation, recent too! [this video]
Recommends hughesjj · 2024-04 · on “The deconstructed Standard Model equation”
Yup. That said it seems like a quick blog post from 2016. There's been more comprehensive breakdowns since [this video]
Cites ben_w · 2023-10 · on “How deep is the brain? The shallow brain hypothesis”
> It means that there is no guarantee that, given a non-continuous function function f(x), there exists an NN that approximates it over its entire domain withing some precision p. And why is this important? > Do you know of a universal algorithm that can take a continuous function and a target precision, and return an NN architecture (number of layers, number of neurons per layer) and a starting set of weights for an NN, and a training set, such that training the NN will reach the final state? > All I'm claiming is that there is no known algorithm of this kind, and also that the existence of such an algorithm is not guaranteed by any known theorem. I think so: the construction proof of the c