{"id":354,"date":"2009-03-09T09:27:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T14:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=354"},"modified":"2010-08-24T09:20:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T13:20:56","slug":"good-math-bad-math-i-get-mail-iterative-compression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/good-math-bad-math-i-get-mail-iterative-compression\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Math, Bad Math &#8211; I Get Mail &#8211; Iterative Compression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark C. Chu-Carroll writes about data compression and shrinking gains with multiple pass encryption&#8230;.  He&#8217;s a little on the technical side, but anyone with a basic understanding should be able to easily keep up&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/goodmath\/2009\/03\/i_get_mail_iterative_compressi.php\">Good Math, Bad Math : I Get Mail: Iterative Compression<\/a>: &#8220;He&#8217;s invented a method where he can take a source document, and repeatedly compress it, making it smaller each time.<\/p>\n<p>This is a stupid idea that I&#8217;ve seen entirely too many times. But instead of just making fun of it, I thought it would be interesting to explain in detail why it doesn&#8217;t work. It touches on a bunch of basic facts about how data compression works, and provides a nice excuse for me to write a bit about compression.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark C. Chu-Carroll writes about data compression and shrinking gains with multiple pass encryption&#8230;. He&#8217;s a little on the technical side, but anyone with a basic understanding should be able to easily keep up&#8230; Good Math, Bad Math : I Get Mail: Iterative Compression: &#8220;He&#8217;s invented a method where he can take a source document, <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/good-math-bad-math-i-get-mail-iterative-compression\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[196],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->