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by gus_massa 2771 days ago
Can you win the Hutter Prize? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize

It's a well known challenge and it's a simple way to have an independent validation of your method. The problem is that most people think it's too good to be true, so they'd like to see an independent validation.

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Actually no, there's no one size fits all with compression, in order to win that prize you need an algorithm specialized in compressing natural language text. Mine is specialized in binary data and fast I/O so it's a different nature.

Maybe I will try to email the organizer though to see if there's interest in what I'm doing. Thanks!