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Compress Wikipedia and Win AI Prize
Baldrson writes "If you think you can compress a 100M sample of Wikipedia better than paq8f, then you might want to try winning win some of a (at present) 50,000 Euro purse. Marcus Hutter has announced the Hutter Prize for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge the intent of which is to incentivize the advancement of AI through the exploitation of Hutter's theory of optimal universal artificial intelligence. The basic theory, for which Hutter provides a proof, is that after any set of observations the optimal move by an AI is find the smallest program that predicts those observations and then assume its environment is controlled by that program. Think of it as Ockham's Razor on steroids. Matt Mahoney provides a writeup of the rationale for the prize including a description of the equivalence of compression and general intelligence."
Marcus Hutter has announced the Hutter Prize for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge the intent of which is to incentivize the advancement of AI through the exploitation of Hutter's theory of optimal universal artificial intelligence.
But captain, if we reverse the tachyon inverter drives then we will have insufficient dilithium crystals to traverse the neutrino warp.
There. All of wiki, in 31 bytes.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
Man, WinRar is taking its bloody time. But oh god, when its done, I'll be rich!
arj
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Convert it to AOL! tis wikpedia, teh fri enpedia . teh bst in da wrld.
Stupidity is like nuclear power, it can be used for good or evil. And you don't want to get any on you.
Hmmm...well in that case, someone go edit the Wikipedia entry on "computers" and allow them to store data at the bit level. Also, I heard somewhere where computers in Africa have tripled in the past six months!
I have a program that compresses 100M of Wikipedia to one bit with no loss at all. The program is somewhat special-purpose, and at 100,024,076 bytes, a little chunkier than I'd like.
Rediculous: A word indicating the writer is ridiculously ignorant.
Removing all the incorrect and inaccurate data from the Wikipedia sample should "compress" it down to at least 20mb.
Then just apply your personal favourite compression utility.
I like lharc, which according to Wikipedia was invented in 1904 as a result of bombarding President Lincoln, who plays Commander Tucker in Star Trek: Enterprise with neutrinos.
Sorry, anything which uses the word "incentivize" does not involve intelligence, natural or artificial.
TFA is a neat idea theoreretically, but it's progeny will never be able to leave the lab.
Your use of "TFA" is a good compressional technique, but you could change "it's" to "its" and actually GAIN in meaning while losing a character! You're well on your way...
echo "!#/bin/sh\nwget en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/" > archive
Mine wins as it is roughly 40 bytes total.To get your results, you simply need to run the self-extracting archive, and wait. Be warned, it will take a while, but that is the cost of such a great compression scheme!
DYWYPI?
Umm... which of the 5 thousand links is the article?
A (good) sign of the times, I guess.
Well, if I knew that 15 years ago, I would indeed have been a genuis, sadly I realized too late and my genuis talents are wasted yet again.
Have no fear though, I'm working on a new one.
that the entire knowledge of the world could simply be compressed without loss to
yeah, you guessed it..
42...
He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security
So, we need a WikiCast - remember folks, you heard it here first!
antipaucity
... now all we need is a dictionary for nudity and we could save a lot of bandwidth on the Internet!
Can't I just punch the monkey for $20 instead?
Of course he was joking. If he was serious he would've said "verbificate".
He did, but Slashdot's AI compressed it for him.
:-D
I like to hitchhike, and I could use a guide like this on my travels.