1/ Reading Schmidhuber's paper on Compression, Interestingness, Beauty, as part of homework for ribbonfarm course arxiv.org/abs/0812.4360
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1/ Reading Schmidhuber's paper on Compression, Interestingness, Beauty, as part of homework for ribbonfarm course arxiv.org/abs/0812.4360
2/ My community of practice has lately been stoked about "post-surprise", as in "get over being surprised when you know better" => relevant.
3/ To the extent that you're surprise-able when you could-not-be, you're not compressing things well. Thus probably attached to some frame.
4/ DbCP also making me wonder if the awesomeness of fractals is ability to be totally novel yet instantly predictable via self-similarity
5/ Yet also not totally predictable. So there's a kind of figure-ground perceptual oscillation between novelty and predictability.
6/ Technically a spiral is a fractal, but it doesn't mind-blow b/c it's 100% predictable. But I guess Sierpinski, Koch, ferns... hm.