[bumper_crop]

Very timely; I found out yesterday that the UPX program (EXE specific compressor from many years ago) was made by the same guys who made LZO. I had this realization that there is a progeny from people who write compression stuff. In a similar vein, The Rob Pike post from yesterday mentioned Ken Thompson had made a custom audio compression for the Plan 9 release. He also made the UTF-8 compressor too. I love seeing how these people keep refining the state of the art.

[Jerrrry]

The thoughts around information theory, entropy, compression, emergent behavior, and the intersectional limits of all of them are quite reminiscent and memetic to those who are interested.

Complexity is fuckin cool.

[a-dub]

you may enjoy this text: http://www.inference.org.uk/itila/book.html

[Jerrrry]

thank you, saved