Actually, I'm writing this because programming is an art and I enjoy creating art. I know how artists feel when AI is taking over their job. I could let AI write the code, but what fun is that?
The Hutter prize is useful for finding CPU efficient language models, but what I am discovering has very little to do with language modeling and more to do with the arcane details of the test set, basically hacks. I don't need the prize money. My reward is seeing smaller numbers and moving up the rankings. "Quantum Kolmogorov bypass" is just nonsense. If you want practical knowledge about text compression, see my book, https://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] On Mon, Jan 5, 2026, 9:56 AM Quan Tesla <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Matt. The Hutter chalenge offers a great testbed opportunity for > noveltech. Investigating a quantum-enabled Kolmogorov bypass. > Theoretically, a potential improvement of 2% over record. > > On Mon, 05 Jan 2026, 06:38 Matt Mahoney, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm on the Hutter prize committee so I'm not eligible for prize money. >> Nevertheless I am working on a project that might produce some code >> (GPL) that others might find useful. At this point it is just a >> preprocessor to improve downstream compression by other compressors. >> Details at >> https://encode.su/threads/4467-enwik9-preprocessor?p=86853#post86853 >> >> The current version compresses enwik9 to 268 MB in 5 minutes and >> decompresses in 19 seconds. It is a 4 stage preprocessor and a simple >> LZ77 compressor, but it is mainly useful to skip the LZ77 step and >> compress it with other compressors. >> >> -- >> -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T0518db1e3a0c25c5-M2d85190b9faa4d14e9b8e839> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T0518db1e3a0c25c5-Mcaf721185ed7f22b4275dbe0 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
