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The $5000 Compression Challenge (2001)
Patrick Craig > Other Stuff > Compression Challenge The $5000 Compression Challenge Apart from the $100 cash I sent him, the emails below are a complete record of all the correspondence between myself and Mike Goldman. The only editing I have done is to remove some line breaks and to replace potentially sensitive information with asterisks.
Patrick Craig> Other Stuff> Compression Challenge Apart from the $100 cash I sent him, the emails below are a complete record of all the correspondence between myself and Mike Goldman. It is theoretically possible for a random number generator to output a large file that just contains ASCII text. I said he could keep the $100 because I think that taking it back would be admitting that I failed or cheated.I think the only reason Mike offered the $5000 prize was because he was convinced that the challenge was impossible.
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