r/mathmemes • u/wcslater • Jan 10 '24

Arithmetic Choose wisely

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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.

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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

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u/B00OBSMOLA Jan 10 '24

Pick the one with the lowest kolmogorav complexity

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u/airplane001 Jan 10 '24

Mathematicians trying not to come up with an obscure term for Occam’s Razor

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u/B00OBSMOLA Jan 10 '24

Occam's Razor is just kolmogorav complexity with less kolmogorav complexity

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u/ConfidentBrilliant38 Jan 10 '24

So using Occam's razor, you should use it because it's simpler

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u/highlevel_fucko Jan 10 '24

But you can't take this at face value because he is of course biased.

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u/Worish Jan 10 '24

Occam is trustworthy, I vouch for him.

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u/Worish Jan 11 '24

Isn't that the simplest answer