Today, we’re going to talk about lossless compression. So last episode we talked about some basic file formats, but what we didn’t talk about is compression. Often files are way too large to be easily ...

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Data Compression is one of the most important components of this world, driven by petabytes of data daily. We, as humans, are generating data every second. From walking to running, eating to drinking, ...

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We all know that we need to compress a large file if we want to transfer or send it to someone. But have you ever thought about what happens to a file when it is compressed? How does the size of a ...

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