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Day: 17 July 2025

Zip It - Finding File Similarity Using Compression Utilities

I really enjoyed Computerphile's video about how ZIP tools can be used for abstract tasks that you might initially think were way outside their scope... like working out how close the genetic relationship between two species is, or which human languages are most similar to one another!
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- posted 17 July, 2025

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