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Large Text Compression Benchmark

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Re: Large Text Compression Benchmark

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I often think about how entire blueprints can fit on a few MB's and how the decompression algorithm (construction) can turn those couple of MB's into a giant physical structure.

I wonder what lessons can be learned from this process to further improve text compression to the point where a few bytes can decompress into (maybe not lossless content) but lossless intent and meaning of the message.