There was a problem in comp.compression (or whatever Usenet newsgroup) of arroga...

DanBC on March 8, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The $5000 Compression Challenge

There was a problem in comp.compression (or whatever Usenet newsgroup) of arrogant challengers announcing their brilliant new compression algorithm. This bet is a way of demonstrating at least the pigeon hole problem to other people.