Python implementation of the BACON algorithms for automated scientific discovery

This project aims to implement -- in spirit if not in detail -- the BACON.4 algorithms produced by Pat Langley, Herb Simon, and their collaborators. The original code was written in LISP, and was largely restricted to exact data. Rather than attempt to port this code to Python, this project aims to produce versions of the algorithms for finding quantitative laws and inventing novel intrinsic variables that are not limited by the noise in real-world data. The main reference for these algorithms is:

Langley, Pat, Herbert A. Simon, Gary Bradshaw, and Jan M. Zytkow. Scientific Discovery: Computational Explorations of the Creative Processes. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1987.

This project was begun by Dr. Benjamin Jantzen [http:https://www.ratiocination.org/] in support of the Philosophy & Physical Computing summer school at Virginia Tech ([https://thinkandcode.lib.vt.edu/]). The project has been extended by Molly Hickman.