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having thought about it a bit, I think the idea of terser accurate models being "better" is the core of the idea of "beauty" in programming (and probably elsewh
by beaconstudios 6y ago
having thought about it a bit, I think the idea of terser accurate models being "better" is the core of the idea of "beauty" in programming (and probably elsewhere).
- chriswarbo 6y agoSchmidhuber thinks a similar thing https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/beauty.html https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/beauty.html (he's also worked with Hutter on AI https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/unilearn.html https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/unilearn.html )
- beaconstudios 6y agofascinating, thanks for sharing. The idea that a formal theory of beauty could belong within the memeplex of complexity theory is really interesting. I find that complexity theory itself is full of beautiful concepts, so perhaps it's no surprise.
- npsimons 6y agoI've always felt that the best non-CS programmers were physicists, because they are always looking for the simplest model (eg, the same community that rejected a 27 dimension string theory as being too complex, but don't quote me on this, I'm no physicist).