>I was particularly surprised that the method exactly recovers the Big-5 components of personality from the results of the survey questions. Why? Is that a st

>I was particularly surprised that the method exactly recovers the Big-5 components of personality from the results of the survey questions. Why? Is that a standard dataset? They could have just cherrypicked tasks. I also noticed that they seem to only have the actual computation working for discrete random variables (integer features) right now, which limits its applicability. They also seem to use mass-function estimators, which again can work well for discrete data while becoming statistically intractable when dealing with continuous random variables. >The whole idea of "simplest model that explains most of the data" has always been very appealing to me. In this case it's a bit more like, "The set of latent variables that best screen off the observables from each-other."