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I Hacked the Middle-Out Compression from 'Silicon Valley'

by nlazaris on 6/16/15, 5:06 PM with 5 comments

• by TTPrograms on 6/16/15, 5:33 PM

  Lossy and lossless compression for many different data formats are active fields of research with people dedicating significant portions of their life to finding ways to improve them.

  It's a funny attempt at echoing the results from Silicon Valley, but realistically this stuff is hard - perhaps more suited for a semester of research than a weekend hackathon.

• by Zekio on 6/16/15, 5:46 PM

  Gotta say i love that show, and damn never knew how much information they actually put into all that, and this was probably the best read of the day for me, hope others comments will add to it :)

• by lyra833 on 6/16/15, 5:38 PM

  Author here, this is my first real foray into any sort of technical writeup. Please let me know if I've made any horrible mistakes.

• by dsheynin on 6/16/15, 10:30 PM

  I wonder why no one thought to create a metric like the Weissman Score before the show...