This is why the size of the decompressor is included.
http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/textrules.html
-- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Pablo Carbonell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 3:25:22 PM
Subject: RE: Goetz/Goertzel/Sampo: [agi] Marcus Hutter's lossless compression
of human knowledge prize
A program that compresses information, can be optimized to compress a given
set of data
Could this be the winning program for the wikipedia?:
Read_compressed_input(&x);
If x == MAGIC_CONSTANT
Printf("entire wikipedia");
Else
Regular_winzip_job(&x);
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De: Mark Waser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Enviado el: Miércoles, 16 de Agosto de 2006 09:50 a.m.
Para: agi@v2.listbox.com
Asunto: Re: Goetz/Goertzel/Sampo: [agi] Marcus Hutter's lossless compression
of human knowledge prize
>> The *only* real difference between your suggestion and mine is that
>> you
>> are ignoring the size of the compressed OpenCyc file.
> Right. Which is an important difference.
Only for the purposes of judging the contest :-)
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From: "Philip Goetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 10:46 PM
Subject: **SPAM** Re: Goetz/Goertzel/Sampo: [agi] Marcus Hutter's lossless
compression of human knowledge prize
> On 8/15/06, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > I think it would be more interesting for it to use the OpenCyc corpus
>> > as its knowledge for compressing the Wikipedia sample. The point is
>> > to demonstrate intelligent use of information, not to get a wider
>> > variety of data.
>>
>> :-) My assumption is that the compression program is building/adding to
>> a
>> knowledge base when it reads a file/corpus and then it exports a
>> compressed
>> version of either 1) all of the knowledge from the newest file/corpus OR
>> 2)
>> the file/corpus knowledge minus whatever was previously known from a
>> previous file/corpus.
>>
>> If you "compressed" the OpenCyc corpus, threw away the compressed
>> file,
>> and then compressed the Wikipedia sample with the output option set to #2
>> above excluding the OpenCyc corpus, then my program would be doing
>> exactly
>> what you are suggesting (and doing it in the easiest possible way since
>> you
>> need some way to get the OpenCyc corpus into the knowledge base).
>
> Yes. RIght.
>
>> The *only* real difference between your suggestion and mine is that
>> you
>> are ignoring the size of the compressed OpenCyc file.
>
> Right. Which is an important difference.
>
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