{"id":78,"date":"2008-10-30T23:42:54","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T07:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2008-10-30T23:42:54","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T07:42:54","slug":"compression-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Compression Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"

I count 3 ways to compress data:<\/p>\n

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  1. Use short strings\/symbols often, long strings rarely (e.g. Huffman coding, Zipf’s law’s effect on words, I me you the \/ prestidigitation onomatopoeia)<\/li>\n
  2. Refer back to things (e.g. zip, gif, lz, “One if by land, two if by sea.”, symbols)<\/li>\n
  3. Remove unwanted stuff (e.g. jpg, mpg, stop reading boring stuff)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Are there any others?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I count 3 ways to compress data: Use short strings\/symbols often, long strings rarely (e.g. Huffman coding, Zipf’s law’s effect on words, I me you the \/ prestidigitation onomatopoeia) Refer back to things (e.g. zip, gif, lz, “One if by … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggy-things","category-machine-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}