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wget http://mattmahoney.net/dc/enwik9.zip http://mattmahoney.net/dc/enwik9.zip gunzip enwik9.zip Where do I claim my money? Edit: alternate solution[1]: cat

wget http://mattmahoney.net/dc/enwik9.zip http://mattmahoney.net/dc/enwik9.zip gunzip enwik9.zip Where do I claim my money? Edit: alternate solution[1]: cat /dev/urandom [1] this solution only works some of the time

xpe 6y ago
Taken literally, this comment feels like a joke -- which is probably why some HN people downvoted it. However, think about the first part of this comment from an AI point of view. The program itself is the compression. An intelligent agent could discover this kind of program. Notes: This isn't perfect, since it depends on having network access, reliability, and so on. However, maximally intelligent agents, in my view, know how to balance situational and environmental factors in order to solve a problem.
rockdoe 6y ago
Maybe you should read the competition rules that explicitly specify what input is permitted.
- xpe 6y ago
  Per HN guidelines [1], it would be better and nicer to say something like this: "the competition rules disallow input from other sources (files, network, dictionaries, etc.)" -- http://prize.hutter1.net/hrules.htm http://prize.hutter1.net/hrules.htm [1] The HN guidelines write: > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." -- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - alasdair_ 6y ago
    Thanks for the polite reply. I really did read the rules, I must have just missed the part about “external sources”. Of course, since standard libraries are allowed, the logical way to win the challenge is for someone who has commit access to a standard library to include the text as part of an update to that library.
  - rockdoe 6y ago
    I'm not telling the author to read the article, I'm telling them to read the actual rules which anticipated this trivial attempt to be clever. Per HN guidelines [1], it would have been better to do that than to post a shallow dismissal of the idea. The article only contains a paraphrasing of the rules missing these essential details. Per HN guidelines [2], it would have been better to post the original link and avoid the confusion that you now also fell for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html [1] Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. [2] Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. The HN rules aren't terrible, but with no-one actually following them nor having followed them for as long as this site exists I don't see the point in bandying them about to make pointless comments.

xpe 6y ago

Taken literally, this comment feels like a joke -- which is probably why some HN people downvoted it. However, think about the first part of this comment from an AI point of view. The program itself is the compression. An intelligent agent could discover this kind of program. Notes: This isn't perfect, since it depends on having network access, reliability, and so on. However, maximally intelligent agents, in my view, know how to balance situational and environmental factors in order to solve a problem.

rockdoe 6y ago

Maybe you should read the competition rules that explicitly specify what input is permitted.

xpe 6y ago
Per HN guidelines [1], it would be better and nicer to say something like this: "the competition rules disallow input from other sources (files, network, dictionaries, etc.)" -- http://prize.hutter1.net/hrules.htm http://prize.hutter1.net/hrules.htm [1] The HN guidelines write: > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." -- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- alasdair_ 6y ago
  Thanks for the polite reply. I really did read the rules, I must have just missed the part about “external sources”. Of course, since standard libraries are allowed, the logical way to win the challenge is for someone who has commit access to a standard library to include the text as part of an update to that library.
- rockdoe 6y ago
  I'm not telling the author to read the article, I'm telling them to read the actual rules which anticipated this trivial attempt to be clever. Per HN guidelines [1], it would have been better to do that than to post a shallow dismissal of the idea. The article only contains a paraphrasing of the rules missing these essential details. Per HN guidelines [2], it would have been better to post the original link and avoid the confusion that you now also fell for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html [1] Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. [2] Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. The HN rules aren't terrible, but with no-one actually following them nor having followed them for as long as this site exists I don't see the point in bandying them about to make pointless comments.