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lancefisher on Sept 24, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Burrows–Wheeler Transform

This is a fun video from a series on compression that explains it well, and features Mike Burrows:

https://youtu.be/4WRANhDiSHM

He shares the origin of the algorithm as well as a story about how it was first published.

The Compressor Head video series is the best introduction to compression that I’ve found.

visarga on Sept 24, 2022 [–]

That was great. It's one of the greatest things about YouTube that you can find such videos on it.

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