| ▲ | srcreigh 6 hours ago | |||||||
As an aside, I wonder how to account for the information content embedded in the hardware itself. A Turing Machine compressor program would likely have more bytes than the amd64 binary. So how to evaluate KolmogorovComplexity(amd64)? The laws of physics somehow need to be accounted for too, probably. | ||||||||
| ▲ | Dylan16807 29 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
The complexity of a simple turing machine is itty bitty, and you can bootstrap that into an x86 emulator in a matter of kilobytes, so when we're messing with 100MB files it's not a big factor. | ||||||||
| ▲ | d_burfoot 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
Kolmogorov Complexity is only defined up to a constant, which represents Turing machine translation length. | ||||||||
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