3 papers
cs.CE2026
Investing Is Compression
Oscar Stiffelman
In 1956 John Kelly wrote a paper at Bell Labs describing the relationship between gambling and Information Theory. What came to be known as the Kelly Criterion is both an objective…
cs.DS2014
PivotCompress: Compression by Sorting
Oscar Stiffelman
Sorted data is usually easier to compress than unsorted permutations of the same data. This motivates a simple compression scheme: specify the sorted permutation of the data along…
cs.LG2014
The Least Wrong Model Is Not in the Data
Oscar Stiffelman
The true process that generated data cannot be determined when multiple explanations are possible. Prediction requires a model of the probability that a process, chosen randomly fr…