Re: Serious *Mistake* by Schmidthuber

2002-09-08 Thread Russell Standish
Interesting post. Unfortunately, I don't have enough time at present to properly digest it or understand it. I gather that your rare events are the ones of measure zero. In the Schmidhuber ensemble, these events are never observed, and consequently are ignored. Only finite length descriptions

Re: Serious *Mistake* by Schmidthuber

2002-09-06 Thread Bill Jefferys
At 12:20 PM -0700 on 9/6/02, Osher Doctorow wrote: Thus, not only can conditional probability not model events of probability 0, but it cannot even model events of probability close to 0 (Rare Events). Nonsense. It's done all the time for events of low probability. Bill

Re: Serious *Mistake* by Schmidthuber

2002-09-06 Thread Osher Doctorow
] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 2:19 PM Subject: Re: Serious *Mistake* by Schmidthuber At 12:20 PM -0700 on 9/6/02, Osher Doctorow wrote: Thus, not only can conditional probability not model events of probability 0, but it cannot even model events of probability close to 0 (Rare Events