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The Hutter Prize (http://prize.hutter1.net/) claims that compression is related to intelligence, and that good compression is advancing towards AI.

I'm not so sure, but it leads to interesting ideas.

A genetic algorithm, taking sample chunks from the expanded data, creating dictionaries, compressing, and comparing scores might be a useful approach. (But a poor fit for the hutter prize's restrictions.)

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