gzip
5 stories and discussions about gzip, aggregated from every source we track.
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A while back I wrote about language modeling without neural networks, where I generated Shakespeare with an unbounded n-gram model: no weights, no training, …
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All this work was done in November last year. I haven’t worked on it since, but others have shown interest in picking this up, so it’s about time this gets thrown out in the open.
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Breaking Down the Hype: Unpacking the Findings of the Recent ACL Conference Paper
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Exploring whether gzip can generate text by treating compression as prediction.
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More than 30 years after its debut, GNU gzip receives fixes for bugs that have existed since the project’s earliest releases.