An ode to bzip The story goes like this. ComputerCraft is a mod that adds programming to Minecraft. You write Lua code that gets executed by a bespoke interpreter with access to world APIs, and now you’re writing co...

“And Ode To Bzip”, Alisa Sireneva (purplesyringa.moe/blog/an-ode-...).

Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4737...

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#Bzip #Compression #BWT #BurrowsWheelerTransform #LZ77 #Gzip #Text #Raves

Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) interactive introduction An interactive deep dive into how the Burrows-Wheeler transform works for compression and for genomics sequence alignment algorithms.

Awesome!

“The Burrows-Wheeler Transform”, Robert Aboukhalil (sandbox.bio/concepts/bwt).

Via HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4553...

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#BWT #BurrowsWheelerTransform #Encoding #Compression #RLE #Programming #Algorithms