I see vacuous people....

Yoo-hoo

Oh, vacouous yoo
vacuously troo
Yoo knew;
trooth over survival
beauty over pain

You may have noticed the new graphic header for the blog.
It's a set of deformations of Solomonoff's Algorithmic Probability equation (Sholarpedia, MIT Lecture). ALP in essence takes the weighted sum of all the hypotheses about a set of observations. It has been shown that ALP learns to correctly predict any computable sequence with only the absolute minimum amount of data.
You can get it straight from the horse's mouth here, although, be forewarned, Ray is struggling with a missing front tooth which makes it hard for him to enunciate.

Something you probably don't know, is that Ray Solomonoff was in Steven Wright's short film, "One Soldier"!
In the film, there is a scene where Steven Wright's civil war character meets himself from 40 years in the future. His future self tells him not to worry about 40 years from now, he will will have been dead for 37 of them anyway. The man playing the 80 year old Wright is Ray Solomonoff. I saw his name in the credits and went back and checked, and sure enough it's the guy in the picture. As far as I know, no one else has noticed this. How deadpan is that?
So, vacuous you; have some fun with Ray and his beautiful and profound ideas about reality.