Comment by iamflimflam1
2 years ago
That's actually very clever and intuitively understandable.
If you concatenate two similar pieces of text together they will compress better than if you concatenated two dissimilar pieces of text.
2 years ago
That's actually very clever and intuitively understandable.
If you concatenate two similar pieces of text together they will compress better than if you concatenated two dissimilar pieces of text.
Yeah, this is a known (if obscure) technique. The main contribution here is the formalization and measurement.