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- Prefer the simplest hypothesis that fits the data.
- Why ?
- fewer short hypothesis then long ones - it is less likely that
one will find a short hypothesis that coincidently fits the training
data
- this is really rubbish
- another problem - based on internal learner's representation
Patricia Jean Riddle
Wed Jun 23 13:06:34 NZST 1999