I know this isn't close to what Michael was asking but hey this is the AGI list. Similarity is generally important.
When you look at that number, ask you ask Alan, what are you doing? You are estimating complexity based on you, the program, and available resources including time. Your brain is attempting to compute it's complexity. Does anyone disagree? Equivalently it is attempting a decompression. John -----Original Message----- From: Alan Grimes [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 11:09 PM To: AGI Subject: Re: [agi] Numeric Similarity What's the point of this thread? How about this number: 24014998963383302600955162866787153652444049 What's special about it? (hint: it involves different number systems, such as binary.) Piaget Modeler wrote: > Two measures: > > The first measure 1 - | a - b | where a = 1000, and b = 100 > .: -900. > > I said that I wasn't quite happy with this measure but the value is > still less than 1. > So I was willing to work with it. > > The second measure 1 / ( 1 + | a - b |) where a = 1000, and b = 100 > .: 0.0011098 > > The second measure is better because the value falls within the range > -1 to +1. > > So I'm happier with Aaron Hosford's recommendation. > > -- IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. Powers are not rights. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/248029-3b178a58 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
