{"id":5027,"date":"2021-06-06T23:45:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T23:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=5027"},"modified":"2021-06-06T23:45:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T23:45:31","slug":"formalization-of-occams-razor-inductive-reasoning-the-scientific-method-prior-free-bayesian-reasoning-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/06\/formalization-of-occams-razor-inductive-reasoning-the-scientific-method-prior-free-bayesian-reasoning-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Formalization of Occam&#8217;s razor, inductive reasoning, the scientific method, prior-free Bayesian reasoning, etc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5028\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Turing_Machine_Model_Davey_2012-scaled-1.jpg?resize=625%2C417&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Solomonoff induction is a principled formalization of Occam&#8217;s razor, inductive reasoning, the scientific method, prior-free Bayesian reasoning, and other deep parts of thinking and computing. I found it absolutely fascinating and quite readable. Geared toward an audience that has at least a vague idea of what Turing Machines and the halting problem are.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesswrong.com\/posts\/Kyc5dFDzBg4WccrbK\/an-intuitive-explanation-of-solomonoff-induction\">An Intuitive Explanation of Solomonoff Induction &#8211; LessWrong<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solomonoff induction is a principled formalization of Occam&#8217;s razor, inductive reasoning, the scientific method, prior-free Bayesian reasoning, and other deep parts of thinking and computing. I found it absolutely fascinating and quite readable. Geared toward an audience that has at least a vague idea of what Turing Machines and the halting problem are. An Intuitive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1j5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5030,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027\/revisions\/5030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}