Quantifying the Rise and Fall of Complexity in Closed Systems
The Coffee Automaton paper formalizing how complexity peaks then declines
The First Law of Complexodynamics
Why complexity rises then falls while entropy only increases
Kolmogorov Complexity and Algorithmic Randomness
The mathematical foundation for measuring information content and randomness
Machine Super Intelligence
Shane Legg's PhD thesis formalizing universal intelligence and the AIXI agent
A Tutorial Introduction to the Minimum Description Length Principle
Grünwald's comprehensive guide to MDL for model selection and learning