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Tom Sterkenburg (Amsterdam/Groningen)
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MCMP – Philosophy of Science
Occam's Razor in Algorithmic Information Theory
Tom Sterkenburg (Amsterdam/Groningen) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (15 January, 2015) titled "Occam's Razor in Algorithmic Information Theory". Abstract: Algorithmic information theory, also known as Kolmogorov complexity, is sometimes believed to offer us a general and objective measure of simplicity. The first variant of this simplicity measure to appear in the literature was in fact part of a theory of prediction: the central achievement of its originator, R.J. Solomonoff, was the definition of an idealized method of prediction that is taken to implement Occam's razor in giving greater probability to simpler hypotheses about the future. Moreover, in many...
2015-02-20
36 min