Re: Predictions duplications

2001-10-26 Thread Juergen Schmidhuber
From: Juho Pennanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] So there may be no 'uniform probability distribution' on the set of all strings, but there is the natural probability measure, that is in many cases exactly as useful. Sure, I agree, measures are useful; I'm using them all the time. But in general they

Re: Predictions duplications

2001-10-26 Thread Juergen Schmidhuber
Schmidhuber: It's the simplest thing, given this use of mathematical language we have agreed upon. But here the power of the formal approach ends - unspeakable things remain unspoken. Marchal: I disagree. I would even say that it is here that the serious formal approach begins. Take unprovable

Re: Higher level beyond QM / QC?

2001-10-26 Thread Marchal
Emil wrote: There is classical mechanics, and there are classical computers, which can search an unordered set of n items in O(n) time. There is quantum mechanics, and there are (in theory) quantum computers, which can do the same in O(n^(1/2)) time. Is it conceivable that there is yet