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Juergen Schmidhuber: Godel Machines, Meta-Learning, and LSTMs

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Is There a Short Programmable Universe?

Your intuition says there exists a shortest programme that can back track to the creation of the universe. As long as we don't have that proof, we are obliged as scientists to keep looking for that simple explanation. A universe that is comparsible to a short programme is much more elegant and much more beautiful than another one which needs an almost infinite number of bits to be described. If we now required an extra oracle injecting new bits of information all the time for these extra things which are apparently not understood, such as better decay, then the whole description length of the data would become much longer and therefore uglier.

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