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An introduction to Kolmogorov complexity and its applications

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An introduction to Kolmogorov complexity and its applications
Ming Li; Paul Vitanyi
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An introduction to Kolmogorov complexity and its applications

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Thanks for the video, I will watch it. The interested readers might want to try the book "An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and its Applications" by Li and Vitanyi (the 3rd edition came out recently). It is comparatively expensive, but Vitanyi's CWI site holds additional material.

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