Ex-Google's Lucas Beyer: Prof's 'Fudge Factor' Admission Was an Eye-Opener and Life Saver
giffmana · x · 2026-10-07
Lucas Beyer recalls a professor admitting that many symbols are "just fudge factors to make the maths match experiments — we have many, we just give each a fancy name" (German: Fummelfaktor). He calls it an eye-opener: neat, beautiful mathematics loses power fast in real engineering.
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