Algorithmic Randomness is quantitative, just as you demand:

Let K be the Kolmogorov Complexity of a bit string and let L be the length
of the bit string.

The randomness of the bit string is simply:

K/L

On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 6:02 PM Jim Bromer <[email protected]> wrote:

> "Algorithmic Randomness is very clear:
> A random string of bits cannot be represented as a program in fewer bits."
>
> Your definition is opposite of what I would consider to be random - unless
> you are defining randomness relative to a special bounded object.  Which is
> what I was saying.
> I realized that my use of the term 'ordering' wasn't general enough since
> what I was getting at was more of a generator of values that produced some
> kind of programmatic orderings.  So if a string of bits could not be
> produced by a particular program, then that would be random (relative to
> that generative program.) Or if a string of bits could not be used by a
> program to represent useful objects (or identify interrelations in the data
> for example) by some particular kind of program than those bits could be
> said to be entropic relative to that program. All useful data bits were so
> dissipated they could not participate in active generation of new reactions
> (that might, for example, require more sophisticated data or program
> objects).  The idea of entropy is also problematic.
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