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by lgdw 1141 days ago
Having a hard time following the lower bound proof, especially this part:

> By the definition of π‘ƒπ‘Ž , we know there are at least as many programs in π‘ƒπ‘Ž as there are artefacts in πœ‹ (𝐺), i.e. |π‘π‘Ž | β‰₯ #πœ‹ (𝐺).

I'm not sure how the definition of P_a leads to |p_a| >= #\pi(G)...

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When they say P_a, they must mean all the minimal programs for every artifact generated by G. It’s like the union of p_a over all the artifacts.

P_a definitely can’t be all the maximally compressed programs for specific a. There’s at most 2^|p_a| of them and if G were the identity function on m length binary strings where m>|p_a|..