This is a place for matchmaking researchers with research ideas in applied sciences that have a sizeable impact on human condition.
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What are the so-called adult problems in your field and who, in your opinion, is needed most to solve them?
Add reasons why you are not working on them yourself. (I, for example, am in a PhD program very remote from practical applications and might have a chance to do some research on useful stuff if I survive that long.)
I don't follow... Can you elaborate on how some specific form of compression could do that?
I can't explain the whole philosophy here, but basically the idea is: you have two theories, A and B. You instantiate them as lossless data compressors, and invoke the compressors on the dataset. The one that produces a shorter net codelength (including the length of the compressor program itself) is superior. In practice the rival theories will probably be very similar and produce different predictions (= probability distributions over observational outcomes) only on small regions of the dataset.
Lossless data compression is a highly rigorous evaluation p... (read more)