royvanrijn: Hmm, if people want to , they'd have to buy a koran... good for the economy and Syriac translators I guess :-)

Compression by prediction

February 17th, 2010

The last couple of weeks I have been playing around with compression/decompression algorithms. This is a field that has always intrigued me. It gives me a magical feeling, like a magician you wave some algorithm around and suddenly the files shrink and bytes dissapear. With the same motion you can undo all your actions and re-generate the original files from thin air!

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