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It's a fine choice of words. It's just a coincidence.

This comment threw me for a loop - "L2" and "lasso" triggered the pattern recognition in my head for "regression regularization" and it took a moment to realize the topic was still orbital dynamics.

Come to think of it, saying "Lagrangian" wouldn't have prevented my confusion - not that there's anything wrong with the terminology in OP. I'm reminded of a passage in Cryptonomicon, which I've been rereading:

    "Newton wrote a *different* book, *also* called *Principia Mathematica*, which isn't *really* about mathematics at all; it's about what we would todaycall physics."
    "Then why did he call it Principia Mathematica?"
    "Because the distinction between mathematics and physics wasn't especially clear in Newton's day--"
    "Or maybe even in zis day," Rudy said.