In the context of model selection one is talking about the smallest among various executable archives that exist.
On Thursday, November 21, 2019, TimTyler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2019-11-21 11:46:AM, James Bowery wrote: > >> I, quite deliberately, did not mention "Solomonoff Induction" as an >> information criterion for model selection, precisely because it is not >> computable. The point of my conjecture is that there is a very good >> reason to select "the smallest executable archive of the data" as your >> information criterion [...] >> > > That's not computable either, for the same reason, to do with the halting > problem. > > -- > __________ > |im |yler http://timtyler.org/ > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T0fc0d7591fcf61c5-Md046e293c1b166de9ca4bd12 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
