About the Rules & Moderation category (Part 1)

anyway at this point let’s just see where zug gets the tossup

Kolmogorov complexity can be conceptualized as measuring an optimal form of this
process.

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It’s like 4PM

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you should go to sleep by 10 am then

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Somebody commented on my hair being really thick today

NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA unsleeped

Inputs for this task can be preprocessed by the Burrows–Wheeler transform,

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this hair looks pretty thick yeah

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IDK what any of this means but nya

well if you think you know the answer you can guess it at any time

netcat

which arranges “similar” characters together.

NOT a guess I just randomly sadi ti

…i don’t think so?

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oh. look cs names its terms the randomest things

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One algorithm for this task uses symbol frequencies to construct a prefix tree

netcat is a program that. does things idk

oh I actually know that
huffman encoding is the algorithm

so, File Compression

good buzz

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apparently this is what the first clue’s about, actually seems interesting. wonder how the other team knew as much about it as they did though

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A family of algorithms for this task is named for Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv. Shannon’s source coding theorem bounds the efficiency of this process. Huffman codes can be used to perform a “lossless” form of this task. For 10 points, name this process that decreases the number of bits needed to store information, which can create .zip files

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