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Compression Is Prediction, and gzip Is What That Looks Like at One-Byte Resolution

Someone built a text generator whose entire model is one line: score each candidate continuation by how small gzip makes it.

Compression Is Prediction, and gzip Is What That Looks Like at One-Byte Resolution

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