Talk:Speed prior

Latest comment: 19 years ago by Flammifer in topic Untitled

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I'm a bit confused about this article.

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and provokes unusual prophecies concerning the future of our universe.

... because it seems damn unencyclopedic.

I've reworked it a bit but I'm not sure of what I'm talking about.

I also took out

Occam's Razor says: prefer simple solutions to complex ones. But what exactly does "simple" mean? According to tradition something is simple if it has a short description or program, that is, it has low Kolmogorov complexity. This leads to Ray Solomonoff's and Leonid Levin's algorithmic probability measure which yields optimal though noncomputable predictions, given past observations.

.. because it's slightly off topic (in my opinion). Flammifer 08:20, 22 August 2005 (UTC)Reply