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Zip It! - Finding File Similarity Using Compression Utilities - Computerphile

Computerphile Jul 15, 2025 13:06
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Finding Genome similarity can just be a case of zipping the relevant files in the right order. Buck Shlegeris is CEO of Redwood Research Papers: https://homepages.cwi.nl/~paulv/papers/similarity.pdf https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9030035/#sec4-entropy-24-00439 Computerphile is supported by Jane Street. Learn more about them (and exciting career opportunities) at: https://jane-st.co/computerphile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. More at https://www.bradyharanblog.com
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