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Main Authors: Alexeev, Boris, Mixon, Dustin G.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00596
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author Alexeev, Boris
Mixon, Dustin G.
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Mixon, Dustin G.
contents Motivated by a popular code golf challenge, we review some key ideas from information theory and discuss how to efficiently compress a streaming file with an acceptable error rate.
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spellingShingle Rewinding the byte trail of the White Whale
Alexeev, Boris
Mixon, Dustin G.
Information Theory
Motivated by a popular code golf challenge, we review some key ideas from information theory and discuss how to efficiently compress a streaming file with an acceptable error rate.
title Rewinding the byte trail of the White Whale
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00596