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* Issue #805 by @hnl [favorites]

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* Compression is prediction

674 pts · 301 comments · node

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* Can gzip be a language model?

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* NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks

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* Reinventing Entropy | Compression is Intelligence Part 1

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* The Hutter Prize

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