DanielLC comments on Frugality and working from finite data - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 05 September 2010 05:16:42PM 0 points [-]

I think it would be easier to figure out how much data it would take. For example, I can easily work out that the data in something happening 1,001,000 times out of 2,000,000 when that's how often it should happen is 1,999,998.56 bits. Actually making the compression isn't so easy.