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Since 2006 Baldrson (Slashdot reader #78,598) has been part of the team verifying "The Hutter Prize for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge," an ongoing challenge to compress a 100-MB excerpt of Wikipedia (approximately the amount a human can read in a lifetime). "The intention of this prize i...
Earlier this year, I learned about the Hutter Prize, a competition in which you are asked to compress a specific file -- 1 GB of Wikipedia data -- to a smaller size than any participants before you. At the time of writing this post, the challenge is to compress the 1 GB file into less than 114 MB. This challenge intrigued me. How can I make a specific file smaller?
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