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Re: Randomness of a bit string

To: [email protected] (Ray)
Subject: Re: Randomness of a bit string
From: [email protected] (Mike McNally)
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 07:41:12 CST
Cc: [email protected]
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>


Ray writes:
 > All of this is meaningless anyway. Information theory was proven wrong
 > by WEB technologies when they invented a compression program that can
 > recursively compress any input data down to 64k. Harddrives are now
 > obsolete.

Either I'm really dense in one of two ways (this is a joke I don't
get, or it's really true), or my pegging bullshit meter is right.
Could you go into a little more detail?

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