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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 14 June 2015 03:09:09PM 0 points [-]

Yes, good compression can be achieved without deep understanding. But a compressor with deep understanding will ultimately achieve better compression. For example, you can get good text compression results with a simple bigram or trigram model, but eventually a sophisticated grammar-based model will outperform the Ngram approach.