How Stanford Engineers Created a Fictitious Compression For HBO

Tekla Perry (3034735) writes Professor Tsachy Weissman and Ph.D student Vinith Misra came up with (almost) believable compression algorithms for HBO's Silicon Valley. Some constraints -- they had to seem plausible, look good when illustrated on a whiteboard, and work with the punchline, "middle out." Next season the engineers may encourage producers to tackle the challenge of local decodability.

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Re:Meh

[Anonymous Coward]

Its called the quantum wave compression algorithm , it be any thing until you decompress it into what you what.
In real life its a bit like the American dream over-hyped collapsing and full of shit when realized.