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Re:The discrete-time physics hiding inside our continuous-ti... by eridius on Monday April 15, 2019 @05:45PM (#19669212)
You say "best", except a long list of events and facts has no predictive power, no way to infer what the future will be, only describes what the present is. The whole point of a model is to be able to predict the future. So in that sense, a long list of all events and facts is the worst description.
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Re:The discrete-time physics hiding inside our continuous-ti... by Xcelerate on Monday April 15, 2019 @07:17PM (#19669720)
Not sure why you’re being downvoted; what you’re saying is true. A model whose length is the same as the data it is describing has no predictive power. A perfect model what be the size of the minimum program that prints out all of the events in the universe (that is, the program whose size matches the Kolmogorov complexity of the universe).
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