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Reputation: 84

Is Weissman score for compression valid?

Is there is really something like weissmann score given as per the efficiency to compress something as shown in "Silicon Valley" TV Series?

Upvotes: 4

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C. Moore
C. Moore

Reputation: 54

The show sparked the creation of an official score for lossless compression called the Weissman Score which was developed by a professor at Stanford as well as a graduate student. Here is some more reading that can be done on it.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weissman_score

and

http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/software/a-madefortv-compression-metric-moves-to-the-real-world

Upvotes: 3

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