Interesting post. Unfortunately, I don't have enough time at present
to properly digest it or understand it.
I gather that your "rare events" are the ones of measure zero. In the
Schmidhuber ensemble, these events are never observed, and
consequently are ignored. Only finite length descriptions (
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> At 12:20 PM -0700 on 9/6/02, Osher Doctorow wrote:
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> >Thus, not only can
> >conditional probability not model events of probability 0, but it
At 12:20 PM -0700 on 9/6/02, Osher Doctorow wrote:
>Thus, not only can
>conditional probability not model events of probability 0, but it cannot
>even model events of probability close to 0 (Rare Events).
Nonsense. It's done all the time for events of low probability.
Bill
From: Osher Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fri. Sept. 6, 2002 11:45AM
I have read about half of J. Schmidthuber's *A computer scientist's view of
life, the universe, and everything,* (1997), and he has interesting ideas
and clarity of presentation, but I have to disagree with him on a number of
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