Bentota's comments

On: The $5000 Compression Challenge

[Bentota]

Why wouldn't binary run length encoding work here? E.g. "compressing" 11100110 to 30020 for example?

[DanBC → Bentota]

Compression relies on entropy. There's not enough entropy in the random file your your run-length encoding to work.

I think the data is available so you can always try to beat the bet.

[et1337 → DanBC]

I may be completely misinformed, but I think you meant to say there's too much entropy.

A binary string of all ones followed by all zeroes has very low entropy, while a purely random binary string has high entropy. (I think. I'm skimming the Wikipedia article on entropy now)

[DanBC → et1337]

Yes, sorry!!

[tehwalrus → Bentota]

How are you storing that 3 in 1s and 0s? ;)