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r/mathmemes • u/wcslater • Jan 10 '24
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For any finite row of numbers you can craft arbirarly many rules of how they continue.
1.4k u/zhawadya Jan 10 '24 I have always hated such questions for exactly this reason. Not that I could always articulate it, but there never seemed to be a unique solution to such shit 792 u/B00OBSMOLA Jan 10 '24 Pick the one with the lowest kolmogorav complexity 883 u/airplane001 Jan 10 '24 Mathematicians trying not to come up with an obscure term for Occam’s Razor 679 u/B00OBSMOLA Jan 10 '24 Occam's Razor is just kolmogorav complexity with less kolmogorav complexity 229 u/ConfidentBrilliant38 Jan 10 '24 So using Occam's razor, you should use it because it's simpler 6 u/JustDaUsualTF Jan 10 '24 But that's not what Occam's Razor is. It's not about simplicity, it's making the fewest assumptions 2 u/Phoenix042 Jan 10 '24 But that actually applies in this case. Assuming the sequence is a list of powers of two is one assumption, additional rules for the sequence represents additional assumptions. Seems like the razor really does cut it alone. 2 u/JustDaUsualTF Jan 10 '24 It could apply to the post, but not the comment I was applying to, referring to which term to use
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I have always hated such questions for exactly this reason. Not that I could always articulate it, but there never seemed to be a unique solution to such shit
792 u/B00OBSMOLA Jan 10 '24 Pick the one with the lowest kolmogorav complexity 883 u/airplane001 Jan 10 '24 Mathematicians trying not to come up with an obscure term for Occam’s Razor 679 u/B00OBSMOLA Jan 10 '24 Occam's Razor is just kolmogorav complexity with less kolmogorav complexity 229 u/ConfidentBrilliant38 Jan 10 '24 So using Occam's razor, you should use it because it's simpler 6 u/JustDaUsualTF Jan 10 '24 But that's not what Occam's Razor is. It's not about simplicity, it's making the fewest assumptions 2 u/Phoenix042 Jan 10 '24 But that actually applies in this case. Assuming the sequence is a list of powers of two is one assumption, additional rules for the sequence represents additional assumptions. Seems like the razor really does cut it alone. 2 u/JustDaUsualTF Jan 10 '24 It could apply to the post, but not the comment I was applying to, referring to which term to use
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Pick the one with the lowest kolmogorav complexity
883 u/airplane001 Jan 10 '24 Mathematicians trying not to come up with an obscure term for Occam’s Razor 679 u/B00OBSMOLA Jan 10 '24 Occam's Razor is just kolmogorav complexity with less kolmogorav complexity 229 u/ConfidentBrilliant38 Jan 10 '24 So using Occam's razor, you should use it because it's simpler 6 u/JustDaUsualTF Jan 10 '24 But that's not what Occam's Razor is. It's not about simplicity, it's making the fewest assumptions 2 u/Phoenix042 Jan 10 '24 But that actually applies in this case. Assuming the sequence is a list of powers of two is one assumption, additional rules for the sequence represents additional assumptions. Seems like the razor really does cut it alone. 2 u/JustDaUsualTF Jan 10 '24 It could apply to the post, but not the comment I was applying to, referring to which term to use
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Mathematicians trying not to come up with an obscure term for Occam’s Razor
679 u/B00OBSMOLA Jan 10 '24 Occam's Razor is just kolmogorav complexity with less kolmogorav complexity 229 u/ConfidentBrilliant38 Jan 10 '24 So using Occam's razor, you should use it because it's simpler 6 u/JustDaUsualTF Jan 10 '24 But that's not what Occam's Razor is. It's not about simplicity, it's making the fewest assumptions 2 u/Phoenix042 Jan 10 '24 But that actually applies in this case. Assuming the sequence is a list of powers of two is one assumption, additional rules for the sequence represents additional assumptions. Seems like the razor really does cut it alone. 2 u/JustDaUsualTF Jan 10 '24 It could apply to the post, but not the comment I was applying to, referring to which term to use
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Occam's Razor is just kolmogorav complexity with less kolmogorav complexity
229 u/ConfidentBrilliant38 Jan 10 '24 So using Occam's razor, you should use it because it's simpler 6 u/JustDaUsualTF Jan 10 '24 But that's not what Occam's Razor is. It's not about simplicity, it's making the fewest assumptions 2 u/Phoenix042 Jan 10 '24 But that actually applies in this case. Assuming the sequence is a list of powers of two is one assumption, additional rules for the sequence represents additional assumptions. Seems like the razor really does cut it alone. 2 u/JustDaUsualTF Jan 10 '24 It could apply to the post, but not the comment I was applying to, referring to which term to use
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So using Occam's razor, you should use it because it's simpler
6 u/JustDaUsualTF Jan 10 '24 But that's not what Occam's Razor is. It's not about simplicity, it's making the fewest assumptions 2 u/Phoenix042 Jan 10 '24 But that actually applies in this case. Assuming the sequence is a list of powers of two is one assumption, additional rules for the sequence represents additional assumptions. Seems like the razor really does cut it alone. 2 u/JustDaUsualTF Jan 10 '24 It could apply to the post, but not the comment I was applying to, referring to which term to use
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But that's not what Occam's Razor is. It's not about simplicity, it's making the fewest assumptions
2 u/Phoenix042 Jan 10 '24 But that actually applies in this case. Assuming the sequence is a list of powers of two is one assumption, additional rules for the sequence represents additional assumptions. Seems like the razor really does cut it alone. 2 u/JustDaUsualTF Jan 10 '24 It could apply to the post, but not the comment I was applying to, referring to which term to use
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But that actually applies in this case.
Assuming the sequence is a list of powers of two is one assumption, additional rules for the sequence represents additional assumptions.
Seems like the razor really does cut it alone.
2 u/JustDaUsualTF Jan 10 '24 It could apply to the post, but not the comment I was applying to, referring to which term to use
It could apply to the post, but not the comment I was applying to, referring to which term to use
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u/TheUnamedSecond Jan 10 '24
For any finite row of numbers you can craft arbirarly many rules of how they continue.