Explainer: compressors and LLMs solve the same core problem
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ngrok blog post walks through compression basics — run-length encoding shrinks a 28-character string to 12 characters, 57% smaller — to argue compressors and language models are fundamentally predicting the same thing. It breaks compressors into three parts: transforms, models, and entropy coders.
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