Timeline for Kolmogorov complexity of classical music
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| Feb 13, 2022 at 11:52 | comment | added | Martin Hairer | I found this paper very disappointing. They encode music as a midi file (that's reasonable), but this is then simply viewed as a bytestream without exploiting the actual meaning of that stream at all. For example, metadata is treated the same as musical data and redundancies in the midi stream aren't detected at all. It would be trivial to encode the exact same piece of music played in the exact same way twice, so that the variance in entropy between the two files is much larger than the variance they observe between genres. | |
| Oct 11, 2021 at 15:11 | comment | added | R W | @Timothy Chow - Yes, that's precisely what I meant. | |
| Oct 11, 2021 at 12:42 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | Entropy does indeed strike me as a more natural concept than Kolmogorov complexity in this context. | |
| Oct 10, 2021 at 14:28 | history | answered | R W | CC BY-SA 4.0 |