paulfchristiano comments on Solomonoff Induction, by Shane Legg - Less Wrong

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Comment author: paulfchristiano 21 February 2011 08:05:33PM 0 points [-]

I started from the view of multiplicative weights over computable predictors, and then when I tried to describe it as an improvement on Solomonoff induction realized it was the same thing. If you write down what the two algorithms actually do, the equivalence to within a constant is clear.