I found a reference to a very nice overview for the mathematical motivations of Occam’s Razor on wikipedia.
It’s Chapter 28: Model Comparison and Occam’s Razor; from (page 355 of) Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (legally free to read pdf) by David J. C. MacKay.
The Solomonoff Induction stuff went over my head, but this overview’s talk of trade-offs between communicating increasing numbers of model parameters vs having to communicate less residuals (ie. offsets from real data); was very informative.
I found a reference to a very nice overview for the mathematical motivations of Occam’s Razor on wikipedia.
It’s Chapter 28: Model Comparison and Occam’s Razor; from (page 355 of) Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (legally free to read pdf) by David J. C. MacKay.
The Solomonoff Induction stuff went over my head, but this overview’s talk of trade-offs between communicating increasing numbers of model parameters vs having to communicate less residuals (ie. offsets from real data); was very informative.