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Re:Hutter Prize: Compress a 100MB file to less than the curr... by throwawaywego on Monday August 12, 2019 @01:19AM (#20672646)
Assuming optimal randomness, the shortest program to output the data will be in the random source. So record the random source, try all programs shorter than the data, and note the timestamp when you've found the optimal compression.
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