This other discussion on the front page (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32982513" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32982513</a>) remembered me of this video introducing Solomonoff Induction as an answer to the the philosophical question of "what is an explanation?" and and a precise break down of Occam's razor from a point of information/complexity theory and data compression.