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What is something that sounds 100% false but is actually 100% true? (lemmy.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it because it works on patterns and your random garbled string would have too much noise to be compressed well, while a structured file coming from an actual piece of software would probably have enough repeating patterns to the point where it actually can be shrunk?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

yes. dictionary based compression is truly awful when fed random data.