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Re: Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data.

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Date 2013-10-31 06:35 +1100
Subject Re: Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data.
From Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On 31 October 2013 05:21, <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am searching for the program or algorithm that makes the best possible
> of completly (diffused data/random noise) and wonder what the state of art
> compression is.
>
> I understand this is not the correct forum but since i think i have an
> algorithm that can do this very good, and do not know where to turn for
> such question i was thinking to start here.
>
> It is of course lossless compression i am speaking of.
>

This is not an appropriate forum for this question. If you know it's an
inappropriate forum (as you stated) then do not post the question here. Do
a search with your preferred search engine and look up compression on
lossless Wikipedia. And read and understand the following link:

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

paying special attention to the following parts:

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#forum
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#prune
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#courtesy
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#keepcool
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#classic

If you have *python* code implementing this algorithm and want help, post
the parts you want help with (and preferably post the entire algorithm in a
repository).

However, having just seen the following from you in a reply to Mark ("I do
not follow instructions, i make them accesible to anyone"), I am not not
going to give a second chance - fail to learn from the above advice and
you'll meet my spam filter.

If the data is truly completely random noise, then there is very little
that lossless compression can do. On any individual truly random data set
you might get a lot of compression, a small amount of compression, or even
expansion, depending on what patterns have randomly occurred in the data
set. But there is no current lossless compression algorithm that can take
truly random data and systematically compress it to be smaller than the
original.

If you think you have an algorithm that can do this on truly random data,
you're probably wrong - either your data is has patterns the algorithm can
exploit, or you've simply been lucky with the randomness of your data so
far.

Tim Delaney

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Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data. jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2013-10-30 11:21 -0700
  Re: Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data. Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-30 18:53 +0000
    Re: Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data. jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2013-10-30 12:01 -0700
      Re: Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data. Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-30 19:18 +0000
        Re: Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data. jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2013-10-30 12:22 -0700
          Re: Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data. Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-30 19:31 +0000
        Re: Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data. jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2013-10-30 12:23 -0700
          Re: Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data. Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-30 19:35 +0000
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  Re: Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data. Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> - 2013-10-31 06:35 +1100
    Re: Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data. jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2013-10-30 12:47 -0700
  Re: Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data. Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> - 2013-10-30 13:46 -0600
    Re: Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data. jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2013-10-30 12:47 -0700
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            Re: Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data. jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2013-11-04 14:34 -0800
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              Re: Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data. Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-11-05 04:33 +0000
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  Re: Algorithm that makes maximum compression of completly diffused data. Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2013-11-03 04:50 -0500

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