https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1312.4456/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8378786urn:hackerpapers:mention:1312.4456:8378786Sun, 28 Sep 2014 02:44:11 GMT<p>&quot;A simplified but useful picture of the goal of scientific research is that scientists obtain large amounts of data about the world via observation and experiment, and then try to find regularities and patterns in that data. But a regularity or pattern is nothing more or less than a method for compressing the data: if a particular pattern shows up in many places in a data set, then we can create a compressed version of the data by describing the pattern only once, and then specifying the different places that the pattern shows up. The most compressed version of the data is in some sense the…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1312.4456/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>quant-ph