How to Let gzip Find the Signal in a Pile of Documents
Our take: Gzip ratio as signal detector; creative but narrow utility.
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Gzip compression ratio can serve as a simple heuristic to identify less-redundant documents in a pile of text files, with lower ratios indicating more repetitive content.
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