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Solomonoff's theory of inductive inference

Solomonoff's theory of inductive inference is a mathematical proof that if a universe is generated by an algorithm, then observations of that universe, encoded as a dataset, are best predicted by the smallest executable archive of that dataset. This formalization of Occam's razor for induction was introduced by Ray Solomonoff, based on probability theory and theoretical computer science. In essence, Solomonoff's induction derives the posterior probability of any computable theory, given a sequence of observed data. This posterior probability is derived from Bayes rule and some universal prior, that is, a prior that assigns a positive probability to any computable theory. (Wikipedia).

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From playlist Introduction to Proof

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From playlist Set Theory by Mathoma

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From playlist Mathematics

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From playlist MIT 6.868J The Society of Mind, Fall 2011

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From playlist Abel Lectures

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From playlist Applied Cryptography

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From playlist Shannon 100

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Ulrich Berger: On the Computational content of Brouwer's Theorem

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From playlist Workshop: "Constructive Mathematics"

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From playlist Y12 Sci Ex Mod 1 Foundations of Scientific Thinking

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From playlist Mathematics

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From playlist Oxford: Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One | CosmoLearning Philosophy

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From playlist Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics

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From playlist Precalculus Chapter 11 (Selected videos)

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From playlist 2023 Machine Assisted Proofs Workshop

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