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ralusek
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Compression
That'd be lossy with hash collisions, though.
blago
on Oct 6, 2020
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You are right, although we might be able to make it lossless in practical terms with probabilistic approaches like combining multiple algorithms, selecting the hash length, and using heuristics to pick the most likely source.
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