How do I associate a sequence of cards with a string? It doesn’t seem like there is any canonical way of doing this. Maybe it won’t matter that much in the end [...]
Just so: the exact representation used is usually not that critical.
If as you say you are using Solomonoff induction, the next step is to compress it—so any fancy encoding scheme you use will probably be stripped right off again.
Just so: the exact representation used is usually not that critical.
If as you say you are using Solomonoff induction, the next step is to compress it—so any fancy encoding scheme you use will probably be stripped right off again.