!!Con 2018: Compressing the Library of Babel! by David Turner

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Channel: Confreaks · 2018 · Science & Technology

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Compressing the Library of Babel! by David Turner

How do you compress the set of all possible books? What can we learn about data compression by trying to do this? We’ll cover zip bombs, the pigeon-hole principle, Kolmogorov complexity, and the Hutter Prize, all compressed into a ten-minute talk.

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