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Manfred comments on Understanding and justifying Solomonoff induction - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: gedymin 15 January 2014 01:16AM

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Comment author: Manfred 15 January 2014 07:31:20AM -1 points [-]

how do you rebalance?

Normalize!

there'll be lots of programs that have epsilon difference--that are basically the same, for all practical purposes.

Solomonoff induction is just defined for binary data. Differences are a minimum of 1 bit,, which is enough.