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by speleo 995 days ago
Thank you for this, I appreciate it! That's unfortunate to hear. I may have to swap out the example I used in this article, and maybe also include a note that this technique has limitations. I think that using compression/Kolmogorov complexity metrics for classification is a fruitful endeavor and that the philosophy of groups like the Hutter Prize are sound, but the kNN + gzip example looks like it has some problems with it.

For anyone else following along, I think the GitHub Issue discussion on the paper's repo is really interesting: https://github.com/bazingagin/npc_gzip/issues/3