This is excellent. I got both wrong answers (19, 26) before getting the right one. Lovely abstraction leaks.
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Dueling Occam's Razors?
Given an arbitrary integer from 0 to 100, what's the simplest explanation for producing that integer as the answer?
e.g. bunch of bananas = 4; clock = position of hour hand; visible polygon = 9, occluded polygon = 3. And we get ... 42!
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Yeah, that’s a good term for it. 38 does seem like a point of maximal fit of some sort, but there’s consistent solutions that explain less by assuming less. Occam may not be the right aesthetic here. I’m now thinking Leibniz principle of sufficient reason: plato.stanford.edu/entries/suffic

