I’d like to imagine they took the short trivia fact and applied the inverse of the compression algorithm to bloat it into something that satisfied the editor.
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Long article for one sentence of trivia and no info on the algo itself. The death of the internet is upon us.
GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
rice@lemmy.org 3 weeks ago
The blog post it links to has all the info, but it is more of a series of changes to the dictionary instead of 1 set thing
adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Doesn’t even name the algorithm, and somehow spells LZMA wrong, despite just having written it out longhand.
Well, it’s PC Gamer.
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Probably mostly AI written.