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Usually one can quantify the subjective notion of useful information in two different perspectives: static resources – measuring the amount of planing required to construct the object; or dynamic resources – measuring the computational effort required to produce the object. We study the robustness of logical depth measuring dynamic resources, proving that small variations in the significance level can cause large changes in the logical depth.
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Antunes, L., Souto, A., Teixeira, A. (2012). Robustness of Logical Depth. In: Cooper, S.B., Dawar, A., Löwe, B. (eds) How the World Computes. CiE 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7318. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30870-3_4
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