Sixth 'Hutter Prize' Awarded for Achieving New Data Compression Milestone

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By EditorDavidJul 23, 2023, 10:19 pm218 pts
Since 2006, Slashdot has been covering a contest CmdrTaco once summarized as "Compress Wikipedia and Win." It rewards progress on compressing a 1-billion-character excerpt of Wikipedia — approximately the amount that a human can read in a lifetime. And today a new record was announced. The 1 billion…

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