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17 Post author: Dahlen 07 December 2014 11:23PM

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Comment author: lmm 16 December 2014 11:22:14PM 0 points [-]

Because gzip is being used to measure complexity. That's literally the reason they used gzip and not, I don't know, rot13. It's an explanation of the causal role that gzip is playing in the whole process.

Comment author: [deleted] 17 December 2014 12:57:37AM *  1 point [-]

No.

"gzip is being used to measure complexity" is an explanation of the causal role that gzip is playing in this study.

"gzip is an approximation of KC" is either 1) flatly not true, see edit to grandparent or 2) not relevant to the study at all.