2008/12/29 Philip Hunt <cabala...@googlemail.com>: > 2008/12/29 Matt Mahoney <matmaho...@yahoo.com>: >> >> Please remember that I am not proposing compression as a solution to the AGI >> problem. I am proposing it as a measure of progress in an important >> component (prediction). > >[...] > Turning a prediction program into a compression program requires > superfluous extra work: you have to invent an efficient file format to > hold compressed data, and you have to write a decompression program as > well as a compressor.
Incidently, reading Matt's posts got me interested in writing a compression program using Markov-chain prediction. The prediction bit was a piece of piss to write; the compression code is proving considerably more difficult. -- Philip Hunt, <cabala...@googlemail.com> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=123753653-47f84b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
