Shout out to Dr. Robert Whetsel who introduced us to the concept and power of Kolmogorov Complexity.
What’s the best way to describe something?
Imagine you have a beautiful picture, and you want to tell your friend how to draw it.
There are two ways you can do this:
Long Description: You can describe every single detail one by one ("draw a blue sky, then draw a small house with a red roof, then draw a tree with green leaves...").
Short Description: You can find a simpler way to describe it ("draw a simple house with a tree next to it under a blue sky").
Kolmogorov Complexity is like finding the shortest set of instructions to describe that picture.