We did a fun experiment in Chapter 5 of Classic Computer Science Problems in Python. We ran a genetic algorithm to find what order of a list (assuming the order doesn't matter) of names led to the best compression using one of the Python standard library's built-in compression algorithms. This article has made me interested in re-running the experiment with multiple compression algorithms.
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We did a fun experiment in Chapter 5 of Classic Computer Science Problems in Python. We ran a genetic algorithm to find what order of a list (assuming the order doesn't matter) of names led to the best compression using one of the Python standard library's built-in compression algorithms. This article has made me interested in re-running the experiment with multiple compression algorithms.