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There's a link to the repo with our own rating system package. Maybe I should have shown that directly? The intention was to specifically draw attention to this finding.

The reference by Rathmanner & Hutter presents a useful analogy. It argues that Kolmogorov complexity (and Solomonoff induction) are best viewed as a conceptual gold standard, like …

Thanks for the detailed critique! I'll take some time to think about how to better make the points that I wanted to convey with those sections.

Thanks! I hope to better address your concerns in Part 2.

Hm I admit it's hard to talk convincingly about election prediction, since we don't have practical algorithms to do this; a lot of it comes down to human judgment. The philosophica…

1) I rather like the subjective view! Bayesians used to struggle to justify a choice of prior, but it turns out that 2^-K(x) is universal in the sense that it never falls below a c…

Thanks. I should clarify that the computer is deterministic, so as to avoid building randomness into the definition of randomness! I skimmed over an example too quickly, but your i…

Thanks! :) I wasn't planning to go there! While I enjoy the idea, for now I'm trying to focus on what's needed to make sense of the problem of induction. Is there a nice connection…

I don't think frequentism is "bad"; just insufficient as a gold standard interpretation of probabilistic claims. I liked an analogy from the reference by Rathmanner & Hutter: the m…

The compression code can be specified first. If you have a lot of data, the specification will be negligible in length, compared to the code itself. Together, the specification and…

Fair enough! I'd like to point out that the Kolmogorov complexity approach can make sense of subjective probability too. Since you lack precise enough information to predict the di…

Since this topic isn't so well-known, I wrote the case arguing that frequentist interpretations don't work, but algorithmic information theory (Kolmogorov complexity) does. I want …

Suggestions are welcome; I'm still learning Rust. To put context around my provocative comment earlier: I write C++ professionally. C++ is the right choice for my organization, tho…

I made this cookbook specifically to show it doesn't have to be so hard. While designing an industrial-strength data structure library is an advanced skill, there are easier ways t…

What's their philosophy? I think Petr was using C# at some point.

Fair point, it's fixed now.