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Comment by d_burfoot

3 days ago

Kolmogorov Complexity is only defined up to a constant, which represents Turing machine translation length.

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notpushkin  3 days ago

I guess we need to guesstimate the length of a shortest Turing machine implementation of amd64 then?

  • srcreigh  2 days ago

    This is cool. No need to guesstimate, it could be a world record category.

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