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New Hutter Prize submission – 8 years since previous winner (encode.ru)
4 points by byronknoll 3307 days ago
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It's a little strange to me that the challenge is always to compress the exact same file. The FAQ talks about this a little bit, but a compressor can become rather specialized to compress that file, and not necessarily perform as well on other corpora, right?