Re: Algorithmic Thermodynamics

2013-01-22 Thread George
Stephen and Russell I have been following this thread with interest as it relates to some research I am currently conducting. In "Algorithmic Thermodynamics" Baez and Stay make the following analogies: 1) The program runtime (E) is analogous to the energy of a gas in a container. 2) The lengt

Re: Algorithmic Thermodynamics

2013-01-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Jan 2013, at 05:34, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 09:25:20PM -0500, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/17/2013 4:21 PM, Russell Standish wrote: From just the abstract alone, I can't see how this differs from the Solomonff universal prior? Hi Russell, OK, is that a good

Re: Algorithmic Thermodynamics

2013-01-17 Thread meekerdb
On 1/17/2013 6:48 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/17/2013 7:10 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: I particularly liked this statement by Baez which relates to Feynman renomalization for QED and Crammer's Transactioanal Analysis: "Manin and Marcolli [20] derived similar results in a broader context and

Re: Algorithmic Thermodynamics

2013-01-17 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/17/2013 11:34 PM, Russell Standish wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 09:25:20PM -0500, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/17/2013 4:21 PM, Russell Standish wrote: From just the abstract alone, I can't see how this differs from the Solomonff universal prior? Hi Russell, OK, is that a good thi

Re: Algorithmic Thermodynamics

2013-01-17 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 09:25:20PM -0500, Stephen P. King wrote: > On 1/17/2013 4:21 PM, Russell Standish wrote: > > From just the abstract alone, I can't see how this differs from the > >Solomonff universal prior? > > Hi Russell, > > OK, is that a good thing? It seems to me that it is. Are y

Re: Algorithmic Thermodynamics

2013-01-17 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/17/2013 7:10 PM, Richard Ruquist wrote: I particularly liked this statement by Baez which relates to Feynman renomalization for QED and Crammer's Transactioanal Analysis: "Manin and Marcolli [20] derived similar results in a broader context and studied phase transitions in those systems. Ma

Re: Algorithmic Thermodynamics

2013-01-17 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/17/2013 9:25 PM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 1/17/2013 4:21 PM, Russell Standish wrote: From just the abstract alone, I can't see how this differs from the Solomonff universal prior? Hi Russell, OK, is that a good thing? It seems to me that it is. Are you saying that the content of t

Re: Algorithmic Thermodynamics

2013-01-17 Thread Stephen P. King
On 1/17/2013 4:21 PM, Russell Standish wrote: From just the abstract alone, I can't see how this differs from the Solomonff universal prior? Hi Russell, OK, is that a good thing? It seems to me that it is. Are you saying that the content of the paper is trivial? Cheers On Wed, Jan 16

Re: Algorithmic Thermodynamics

2013-01-17 Thread Richard Ruquist
I particularly liked this statement by Baez which relates to Feynman renomalization for QED and Crammer's Transactioanal Analysis: "Manin and Marcolli [20] derived similar results in a broader context and studied phase transitions in those systems. Manin [18, 19] also outlined an ambitious program

Re: Algorithmic Thermodynamics

2013-01-17 Thread Russell Standish
>From just the abstract alone, I can't see how this differs from the Solomonff universal prior? Cheers On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 07:29:33PM -0500, Stephen P. King wrote: > Dear Bruno and Friends, > > The paper that I have been waiting a long time for. ;-) > > http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.2067

Re: Algorithmic Thermodynamics

2013-01-17 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Stephen P. King Cool. Go for it. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/17/2013 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-16, 19:29:33 Subject: Algor