Re: Subjective measure and turing machine terminology

2004-01-25 Thread Stephen Paul King
Dear Friends,] Also see Svolzil: http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~svozil/publ/publ.html Stephen - Original Message - From: "CMR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 10:25 PM Subject: Re: Subjective measure and turing machine t

Re: Subjective measure and turing machine terminology

2004-01-25 Thread CMR
> Again, I really suggest that you read the book. It's very good and will > explain all this for you. If you don't have ready access to the book, > there are some online introductions to algorithmic information theory that > you could try (see http://www.idsia.ch/~marcus/kolmo.htm#tutorials) but >

Re: Subjective measure and turing machine terminology

2004-01-25 Thread Wei Dai
On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 07:31:50PM -0800, Eric Hawthorne wrote: >I took some small smattering of that stuff in comp sci undergrad, but Algorithmic information theory is generally not taught in undergrad courses. At least I didn't see it during my CS undergrad years. (Which is too bad because

Re: Subjective measure and turing machine terminology

2004-01-24 Thread Eric Hawthorne
Wei Dai wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 12:21:40PM -0800, Eric Hawthorne wrote: Can you explain briefly why the choice of measure is subjective? I haven't read any of the books you mentioned (will try to get to them) but am familiar with computability theory and decision theory.