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86. Learning as information compression

Education Bookcast

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This episode is inspired by a book called information theory inference and learning algorithms by David McKay which is a book basically about machine learning. I have worked a little bit in machine learning or artificial intelligence if you want to give it the really fancy name that makes the sound really clever. This is one of very few perhaps the only episodes on the podcast where I'm gonna talk a book about a book kind of about a book that I haven't read but really I'm talking about my own thoughts that have been spurred from my small amounts of exposure to this book.

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