@cm0002@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 27 days agoImplementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use todaywww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkImplementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use todaywww.pcgamer.com@cm0002@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 27 days agomessage-square31fedilink
minus-squareTroylinkfedilinkEnglish0•27 days agoLong article for one sentence of trivia and no info on the algo itself. The death of the internet is upon us.
minus-squareEm AdespotonlinkfedilinkEnglish0•27 days agoDoesn’t even name the algorithm, and somehow spells LZMA wrong, despite just having written it out longhand. Well, it’s PC Gamer.
minus-square@GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish0•27 days agoI’d like to imagine they took the short trivia fact and applied the inverse of the compression algorithm to bloat it into something that satisfied the editor.
minus-square@rice@lemmy.orglinkfedilinkEnglish0•27 days agoThe blog post it links to has all the info, but it is more of a series of changes to the dictionary instead of 1 set thing
Long article for one sentence of trivia and no info on the algo itself. The death of the internet is upon us.
Doesn’t even name the algorithm, and somehow spells LZMA wrong, despite just having written it out longhand.
Well, it’s PC Gamer.
Probably mostly AI written.
I’d like to imagine they took the short trivia fact and applied the inverse of the compression algorithm to bloat it into something that satisfied the editor.
The blog post it links to has all the info, but it is more of a series of changes to the dictionary instead of 1 set thing