Achieving awful compression with digits of pi(ntietz.com)
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Achieving awful compression with digits of pi
https://ntietz.com/blog/why-we-cant-compress-messages-with-pi/
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https://github.com/philipl/pifs my favorite file system is based on this!
It's rather interesting that the "compression ratio" is fairly constant. I'd like to see a more thorough treatment of where that number comes from.
This is basically just a compression dictionary made up of random noise, which is... a thing that you can do
https://git.sr.ht/~ntietz/pi-compress/tree/main/item/LICENSE...