oh tanks a lot, would you please email it to me!!? > > Pablo, > > If you are interested in Solomonoff induction and don't want to > spend all the money to buy the book just yet then you might be > interested in a paper I wrote a few years back that starts from > basic computation theory and proves all the key results. > It about 25 pages of mathematics in PDF format, I can email it > to you if you like. > > The key points are: > > Solomonoff induction will learn anything that is computationally > expressible (i.e. anything useful) with an error rate that falls > to zero faster than 1/n where n is the number of bits of input > data that the system has been given. > > Solomonoff induction is not computable and it is difficult to > approximate well. > > Most learning methods in statistics and machine learning can in > some sense be proven to be computable approximations to Solomonoff > induction. > > > So, in short, it's an interesting theoretical model that's amazingly > powerful but it's not something you can directly use in practice. > The prize for an amazingly powerful and practical system is still > very much up for grabs :) > > If you're serious about data compression also check out a book > called Text Compression by Bell, Cleary and Witten. > > Cheers > Shane > > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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