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That list is pretty ad-hoc, and doesn't seem to be carefully curated. Fair enough, one has to start somewhere, but ... There is clearly a great deal of overlap
by mafribe 9y ago
That list is pretty ad-hoc, and doesn't seem to be carefully
curated. Fair enough, one has to start somewhere, but ...
There is clearly a great deal of overlap, e.g. Minimum
Description Length, algorithmic complexity and information theoretic
entropy.
There are also many well-understood relationships between different forms of complexity, e.g. between space and time complexity.
Some appear to be less formal than others, e.g. what is "cost" what is
"crypticity"?
Finally, regarding the broad distinctions, in what sense are the "difficulty of description" and
the "degree of organization" even different?
- moxious 9y agoI think he just didn't define complexity at all, just gave ways of measuring whatever he means. But of course it's a tough topic. If measuring bit length of the explanation is a valid way of measuring something's complexity, then the measuring method itself is pretty complex