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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Shows how intelligent agents can be built using AI methods and explains how different agent designs are appropriate depending on the nature of the task and environment.
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Clue ;)

It's a compression algorithm using the only mathematical method to represent an infinite amount of data with a fitite one. Note that the data to compress can only be infinite in theory.
Happy riddling ;)

As for the code, I haven't looked at it. May well be interesting.
Too bad I can't take part in the contest (age). Wouldn't be much difference, though, since I won't make it far :)

13 posts.
Monday 11 February, 17:11
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Fractals!

Of course... well if you can apply that to web-page compression then you're a better person than I am. My knowledge of fractals is limited to drawing them and zooming in on them!

If the age thing is the only thing bothering you, I'm sure you can get someone older to submit! Don't let that stop your experimentation ;)

935 posts.
Monday 11 February, 17:31
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Nope!

Actually I'm not talking about Fractals, but of Functions. By finding an explicit form for a series of numbers, you can pack them (but i'm sure you already knew that). This is actually done in RLE but only with constant series, afaik. By using non-polynomial functions (i.e. integer) this must be quite well working because you only have to approximate the function and then apply the non-polynomial function. (I hope you get what I mean)

I know that the compressing parts may take hours, but it may well be worth the effort. Bet you'll need damn much simplification algorithms and graph theory for implementation.

Maybe (or: most probably) this is just another crazy thought of mine. But hey, I just can't figure out why this can't be realized / is not effective enough.

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Wednesday 13 February, 11:35
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