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Optimizing for Human Understanding

• vog 10y ago
  This is a great instance of the general pattern that optimization of size (a.k.a. compression) is closely related to artificial intelligence and understanding data. Because the better your program understands the data, the better it can predict expectations, and compression essentially means that you store the difference between your expectation and the actual data. This is why often developing a more compact notation also leads to a better understanding of the problem.