1994-01-26 - Re: Randomness of a bit string
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From: m5@vail.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
To: rjc@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray)
Message Hash: 6116cd3cbcc7e45efbca5a7a500b2926d3e6ee842422bfb4fb158869c045d244
Message ID: <9401261341.AA05996@vail.tivoli.com>
Reply To: <9401251931.AA19525@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1994-01-26 13:42:04 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 05:42:04 PST
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From: m5@vail.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 05:42:04 PST
To: rjc@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray)
Subject: Re: Randomness of a bit string
In-Reply-To: <9401251931.AA19525@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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Ray writes:
> All of this is meaningless anyway. Information theory was proven wrong
> by WEB technologies when they invented a compression program that can
> recursively compress any input data down to 64k. Harddrives are now
> obsolete.
Either I'm really dense in one of two ways (this is a joke I don't
get, or it's really true), or my pegging bullshit meter is right.
Could you go into a little more detail?
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