Data Compression Algorithms
Discussions center on the mechanics, limitations, and skepticism surrounding compression algorithms, especially lossless ones, with references to theoretical concepts like the pigeonhole principle, entropy, and extraordinary claims reminiscent of Pied Piper.
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(You say the 'naive' way; how can it be compressed better?)
Is any of this useful for compression?
Could someone explain to me how compression algorithms work? Shouldn't they not work very consistently, by pigeonhole principle?
Yup, it isn't a dictionary based compression. Nonetheless that's a fascinating take
Are you considering any compression algorithm?
Is this not the type of thing that every compression algorithm does?
Well, maybe not for lossless compression..
Indeed, but this is for lossless compression :)
There are limits to non-lossy compression…
I’m intrigued, please share your 100% text compression rate algorithm!